Retrieving trashed items after emptying the trash.

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I trashed an excel spreadsheet this morning along with a bunch of other stuff. I've emptied the trash and I *really* need the spreadsheet back asap. Can anyone help?

― hmmm, Monday, 23 February 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

If its networked then the trash goes into a huge network "Dumpster" which you might be able to crawl inside and retrieve it from. Along with banana skins and half eaten human corpses.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Try googling for 'undelete tools' or similar. Oh, and if possible, don't do *anything* to the disk with the deleted file on until you're ready to try to recover it.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean by "don't do anything" - you mean like shut the computer down, save stuff? What exactly?

― hmmm, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you got a Mac or PC? If yr machine is running Norton Utilities (antivirus + other stuff.. perhaps only for Mac?) it has a recovery function. Otherwise can you call your IT people or is this your personal computer? The data is not totally gone but worst case scenario, you can't get it back without having someone physically take apart the machine and do data recovery.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Well actually, worse case scenario: a new file has overwritten the portion of the disc were the deleted file once resided.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean by "don't do anything" - you mean like shut the computer down, save stuff? What exactly?

Shutting the computer down is probably OK, but don't do anything that might write something to the disk in case it overwrites the file you've deleted.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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