Accidentally erased my Contest Story
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jsmiam
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Caveat - this depends partly on your version of windows and version of word and options.
If you’re saying you deleted the whole file, do this to the folder the file was in. If you emptied the document and saved the empty file, do this to the file name itself.
In windows windows explorer (windows key and “e” at the same time), navigate to where the file was. Right click. If you’re lucky, you may see “previous versions” in the context menu. (Don’t celebrate yet though.). Follow through, and maybe a version of the file from the right moment in time will be there. (Then you can celebrate. )
This only takes a few minutes. You’ll know if you lucked out pretty quickly.
If you’re saying you deleted the whole file, do this to the folder the file was in. If you emptied the document and saved the empty file, do this to the file name itself.
In windows windows explorer (windows key and “e” at the same time), navigate to where the file was. Right click. If you’re lucky, you may see “previous versions” in the context menu. (Don’t celebrate yet though.). Follow through, and maybe a version of the file from the right moment in time will be there. (Then you can celebrate. )
This only takes a few minutes. You’ll know if you lucked out pretty quickly.
BobbyBrandt
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Or check the "Recycle" bin on your desktop
Lifestyle66
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Check the "Recycle Bin", where it can be restored by right-clicking on it or drag and drop to another folder. But that only works for local drive within the computer.
If you stored it on a removable electronic flash drive, it is probably gone-gone. But if it's stored on a physical harddrive (removable or not), various data recovery software programs may be able to find and undelete it, if those sectors of the harddrive have not yet been overwritten as needed for other files.
If you stored it on a removable electronic flash drive, it is probably gone-gone. But if it's stored on a physical harddrive (removable or not), various data recovery software programs may be able to find and undelete it, if those sectors of the harddrive have not yet been overwritten as needed for other files.
Jsmiam has got the right answer, or the easiest one. I assume most third party software probably just attempts to do that for you. But it is a reason to go into the cloud. Which I guess you could still delete but would be a pretty active decision. I don't ever worry about my computers dying and there goes my files. Google has them.
As a semi-funny side note. For work stuff I got into the habit of hitting SHIFT + DEL which bypasses the Recycle Bin and just makes it go away., we regularly have lots of 'nonsense' files that get created and get in the way. Knowing that shortcut is good until you get home and accidentally do that on your music collection, and there that goes forever. But Spotify earned a new client that day, after I struggled to recover it, so somebody was happy.
Also in the future if you realize you did a bad bad thing right away, hit CTRL + Z. It's Undo and sometimes works to bring back files without going to look where they went.
As a semi-funny side note. For work stuff I got into the habit of hitting SHIFT + DEL which bypasses the Recycle Bin and just makes it go away., we regularly have lots of 'nonsense' files that get created and get in the way. Knowing that shortcut is good until you get home and accidentally do that on your music collection, and there that goes forever. But Spotify earned a new client that day, after I struggled to recover it, so somebody was happy.
Also in the future if you realize you did a bad bad thing right away, hit CTRL + Z. It's Undo and sometimes works to bring back files without going to look where they went.
