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well my wife and i had some folders in the desktop containing some HDR project that we both have been working on, Yes... my wife just got into it LOL, anyway, there was some junk in the desktop along with the important folders and i committed the stupidity of erase them all, and emptied the trash :( :( :(, is there any way to recover this folder somehow???

Please i really need help with this.

thanks

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I'm not gonna be much help, but maybe I can ease your worries a little, I once used some software (the name I can't remember at this time) that could get data off damaged hard drives, and I'm sure it could also get deleted files.

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I did something similar last night (you should never use a computer when you are EXTREMELY tired) and deleted a few important Word Docs that I just had modified. I downloaded a program called Recuva (http://www.recuva.com/), which is made by the same group that publishes CCleaner and I was able to get all of my deleted docs back.

Give it a shot!

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well my wife and i had some folders in the desktop containing some HDR project that we both have been working on, Yes... my wife just got into it LOL, anyway, there was some junk in the desktop along with the important folders and i committed the stupidity of erase them all, and emptied the trash :( :( :(, is there any way to recover this folder somehow???

Please i really need help with this.

thanks

As long as you haven't set the trash can to empty securely, you can use r-studio to recover the files. It isn't free though.

I have read many people reporting that TestDisk does a good job. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk free open source... The advice I will give you is to use the machine as little as possible until you have the recovery software ready to go... Recover TO a drive other than the one you are recovering from. The more you use the machine the more difficult in can become to recover the files.

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well, i tried a couple of software and they sat there scanning for hours and at the end, they only showed little images from like system files and stuff so i gave up and told the wife what happened :pinch:

she was cool though, just keeps joking that she makes better HDRs than me and that's why i deleted them LOL

thanks guys for your help.

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the moment you realize you deleted something you want, stop doing anything that would write to the hard disk because chances are that the data is still there, its location on the disk is simply marked as 'empty' so it might get overwritten

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