Just deleted 90% of my computers files...

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Right so I have just managed to delete 90% of all my Media files on my PC. Thats all my music, anime, game saves, my portfolio of work...everything...

I was having issues deleting a file and so went through CMD to do it, but I obviously got something wrong and it went insane deleting everything. I have used CMD to delete files before, but this is the first time it failed...

Is there ANYWAY at all to get my files back?
 
well as you've used it no point trying the other.
It should have found virtually everything bar any files rewritten or written during the recurva installation.
I would suggest you are unlikely to recover anymore.

Do a backup.
 
The ironic thing is that I have multiple backups. I had been doing a lot of changes to my files lately and was sorting them out for a fresh backup...then this happened.

It seems that it might do the trick, but time will tell...

Thank you so much dudes!
 
2hours or there abouts to recover it thinks. Looks like I lost my anime which wont bother me too much, but still a little annoying. It seems I stopped the deleting procress before it got to my main music, but it took all my soundtracks and stuff.

I am an idiot!
 
how on earth did you manage to delete so much stuff through the command line? did you have any asterisks in the command?
 
Aod said:
how on earth did you manage to delete so much stuff through the command line? did you have any asterisks in the command?
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I went to delete all contents of one folder, obviously it did more then just that folder...! Well it took 2-3hours but it seems I have a lot of it back now. I just need to sit here and sort it all out. My backup drives are all at uni so I cant backup until Saturday/Sunday now.

Gah!

Thanks for all your help btw guys and girls. So you know, its been a crappy day. Did this to my PC, somehow broke my brothers car battery by locking the car, he couldnt reset the lock as he had no door locks in which to use (as its de-keyed), during fixing it the torch blub and spare blub both blew, and then to top it all off the internet died for a few minutes a moment ago. So yea, crappy day! :P
 
smeaney said:
I went to delete all contents of one folder, obviously it did more then just that folder...! Well it took 2-3hours but it seems I have a lot of it back now. I just need to sit here and sort it all out. My backup drives are all at uni so I cant backup until Saturday/Sunday now.

Gah!

Thanks for all your help btw guys and girls. So you know, its been a crappy day. Did this to my PC, somehow broke my brothers car battery by locking the car, he couldnt reset the lock as he had no door locks in which to use (as its de-keyed), during fixing it the torch blub and spare blub both blew, and then to top it all off the internet died for a few minutes a moment ago. So yea, crappy day! :P
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sounds awful man :(. why don't you play some minecraft to relax :D
 
Heh! I dare not use my credit card to buy it tonight. My mum wanted me to take her car to the petrol station for her and I just glared, she caught on straight away and laughed.
 
Well I retract my statement, its not worked. The files are there, their sizes are correct, but they either are corrupt, dont play or just are dead and cant be recognised. However after looking through what was actually lost, I am certain I have it all backed up at uni, apart from the last 2-3days of stuff which isnt much anyways.
 
Doing backups whenever you happen to remember to have your backup drives is not the smartest way to go about it! :p

Hand in wallet. Buy shiny 1, 1.5 or 2TB HDD. Plug it in. Set up backup script/software/whatever. Continue to use your USB HDDs so you still have an offsite backup, in case a meteor hits your house or something.

Odds are you wont be such a plonker in future and certainly should be able to avoid nuking your media AND your backup drives! ;)
 
Got a drive ready for my backups and hopefully start them tonight.
Would you guys just use windows for it or a proper backup program, as the machines are win7 64bit are backing up onto a 32 bit windows7. Ive heard they dont work if they are not the same bit version.

OP you could try file unlocker in the future or file assassin if you cant delete files.
 
SiriusB said:
Doing backups whenever you happen to remember to have your backup drives is not the smartest way to go about it! :p

Hand in wallet. Buy shiny 1, 1.5 or 2TB HDD. Plug it in. Set up backup script/software/whatever. Continue to use your USB HDDs so you still have an offsite backup, in case a meteor hits your house or something.

Odds are you wont be such a plonker in future and certainly should be able to avoid nuking your media AND your backup drives! ;)
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I actually have a rotation of backups on 2 external drives. Money allowing I would have another internal drive, but no cash right now to do so. My externals are rotated from uni and home on a regular basis and my misses has all my important files backed up on hers too. This just caught me off guard really.
 
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