If you’ve just accidentally pressed “delete” and deleted a file on your PC, your first port of call should be to go to the Recycle Bin. Depending on where you deleted the file from, there’s a good chance that your file will be sitting there and you can just right click your mouse and select “Restore”.
But if you didn’t delete the file in such a way that it shows in your recycle bin, what next? Is the file lost permanently? It’s almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. Grrrr!
The good news is that almost always, it’s perfectly possible to get back a deleted file. Even if your recycle bin thinks otherwise. This is because the Windows filing system doesn’t delete the file but rather it flags the space occupied as something it can use again when it needs to.
The problem is that the more you do on your computer, the higher the risk that Windows will re-use part or all of that files’ space, which will make recovering it expensive or maybe not even possible.
So stop whatever you are doing on your computer. That means stop everything. Including web browsing, scanning your iTunes library, whatever. The more things you do, the higher the chance that Windows decide that the space previously occupied by the file is space it can use elsewhere.
If you’ve got access to another computer, use it to download a program like this one to undelete files. If you haven’t got the use of a second PC then you may get away with using your current PC (the chance increases if there is a large amount of disk space left unused) but only do this as a last resort.
Once you’ve got your copy of a program to undelete files, it’s just a matter of pressing “next” most of the time and there’s a very high chance your file will be recovered for you.
Get your file undelete software here now. It’s even got a free trial, so you’ll know that it works for you.
