GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6700|Phoenix, AZ
Well, I totally just accidently deleted almost all of my music...

I found a "Music" Folder on my desktop, and I deleted it. Because I thought it was an old backup that I pulled my other music from when iTunes got wiped a long while back


Turns out thats where iTunes pulled ALL of my music

And I just deleted it



Someone told me a long while back that if you know what your doing you can recover any folder

Is this true? And if so how can I?

THANKS!

Mad karmas for help!
Gooners
Wiki Contributor
+2,700|7112

Ermmm I'm guessing the file was to big to be stored in the recycle bin so was permanently deleted. If that's the case, you're sorted of screwed, because as far as I know there is no way to retrieve permanently deleted data.
_NL_Lt.EngineerFox
Big Mouth Prick
+219|7011|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition
System recovery to last date.
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6700|Phoenix, AZ

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

System recovery to last date.
System Restore?


I thought that didnt effect the personal data files?
Zimmer
Un Moderador
+1,688|7236|Scotland

GodFather wrote:

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

System recovery to last date.
System Restore?


I thought that didnt effect the personal data files?
He is correct.
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6700|Phoenix, AZ

Zimmer wrote:

GodFather wrote:

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

System recovery to last date.
System Restore?


I thought that didnt effect the personal data files?
He is correct.
Who is?

I HOPE i am wrong
Zimmer
Un Moderador
+1,688|7236|Scotland

You are. You can't restore deleted files in a system recovery.
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6700|Phoenix, AZ

Zimmer wrote:

You are. You can't restore deleted files in a system recovery.
But I said I thought that you could NOT restore personal files in a system recovery

im confused o_0
Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
+1,451|7133
1) stop downloading porn and dont do anything else that might overwrite the deleted data
2) google a deleted data restoration program
3) acquire said program
4) recover your music
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
utchin
Member
+8|6394

Gooners wrote:

If that's the case, you're sorted of screwed, because as far as I know there is no way to retrieve permanently deleted data.
You may be able to use a program that can restore them.

i know you can retive them if you do it bia the recycle bin?
Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
+1,451|7133
yeah, if you delete stuff it just 'severs the ties'. the data is still there, but it will be ignored.
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
Freke1
I play at night... mostly
+47|7027|the best galaxy
I've recovered a lot from crashed harddiscs. Best program: Ontrack Easyrecovery 6.01
You can recover a lot since You haven't formatted the disc.
Get a new dics, install Ontrack on it and recover.
You can find it cracked on p2p programs.
https://bf3s.com/sigs/7d11696e2ffd4edeff06466095e98b0fab37462c.png
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6700|Phoenix, AZ

utchin wrote:

Gooners wrote:

If that's the case, you're sorted of screwed, because as far as I know there is no way to retrieve permanently deleted data.
You may be able to use a program that can restore them.

i know you can retive them if you do it bia the recycle bin?
It wasnt in the recycle bin
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6700|Phoenix, AZ
For some reason im painstakingly "Finding" the file


This is actually pretty cool because I can remember a part of my life and how I was feeling just by the music I was listening to...
Luigi
Sniper Whore
+97|6659|Wisconsin
If you have it all on your ipod, you can use a program called copytrans

Free version is good for about 500 songs or so, but you could find the full version from somwhere *cough* torrent *cough*
SpIk3y
Minister of Silly Walks
+67|6619|New Jersey

LuigiMcOwnage wrote:

If you have it all on your ipod, you can use a program called copytrans

Free version is good for about 500 songs or so, but you could find the full version from somwhere *cough* torrent *cough*
This would definitely be the easiest solution.  Use  a program to put the songs from you iPod back onto your computer.  Hopefully your entire collection is on the iPod...
ReTox
Member
+100|6979|State of RETOXification
Download FreeUndelete and use it.
Gooners
Wiki Contributor
+2,700|7112

GodFather wrote:

utchin wrote:

Gooners wrote:

If that's the case, you're sorted of screwed, because as far as I know there is no way to retrieve permanently deleted data.
You may be able to use a program that can restore them.

i know you can retive them if you do it bia the recycle bin?
It wasnt in the recycle bin
So you deleted them where?



lolwut
theit57
I am THE Frodo Baggins.
+124|6879|6 feet under
ok, so I deleated my library to put everything from my iPod in and i clicked keep files, where do I go to find them?
ReDevilJR
Member
+106|6831

theit57 wrote:

ok, so I deleated my library to put everything from my iPod in and i clicked keep files, where do I go to find them?
You can manually go into the drive, and pull all the audio files off, or you can use the programs as the people above suggested. If you pull off the audio files, the names of the files will be numbered weird. However, your track titles and artists when played in iTunes will show up normal.
theit57
I am THE Frodo Baggins.
+124|6879|6 feet under

ReDevilJR wrote:

theit57 wrote:

ok, so I deleated my library to put everything from my iPod in and i clicked keep files, where do I go to find them?
You can manually go into the drive, and pull all the audio files off, or you can use the programs as the people above suggested. If you pull off the audio files, the names of the files will be numbered weird. However, your track titles and artists when played in iTunes will show up normal.
i know how to get the files off the iPod, but where do I find the files from my library that I deleated and selected the option keep files?
**LiLp-DeFiNeD
Banned
+54|6635|Vancouver, BC, Canada
Google a program called Sharepod, it'll let you get music off most iPod's(not sure about the new ones)
aimless
Member
+166|6605|Texas
All that windows does when you delete files is mark them as "overwriteable" and removes them from view. So technically, your data is still there, unless you overwrote it with more data.

This is why data is still recoverable from drives after reformatting. To completely erase data, you have to overwrite your drive with blank data.
S.Lythberg
Mastermind
+429|6927|Chicago, IL
transfer purchases
De_Jappe
Triarii
+432|7007|Belgium

yeah freeundelete or something like that. Best is even to put the HD on another computer as secondary disk so you don't have your OS writing stuff on it. Anyway the more you download and install now on that disk, the less music you'll be able to recover.

Board footer

Privacy Policy - © 2025 Jeff Minard