Deleted Temporary Files

[bbenchimol]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone can help me with this..

I have accidentally deleted the temporary files for a project--a radio podcast interview.

I deleted it after the project crashed when I opened up a second program ( I know...I know).

If anyone can help me, it would mean soooo much. Thanks.

Youd be saving my ass bigtime.

[kozikowski]

The Windows people will be on line in a couple of hours, but I think without the temporary files and folder intact, you have no show. All the Disaster Rescue Tools work on recovering the existing files. If you overwrote them.......

Koz

[waxcylinder]

Windows elf awake and on duty...

Your only hope is that if the files are all still in your Windoze waste?Recycle bin - then you can restore them. You can select them all and restore in one click after that - you don't have to do them one at a time.

If the files are no longer in wastebasket - then you've lost the show.

WC

[steve]

If the files are no longer in wastebasket - then you've lost the show.

On Windows it is sometimes possible to recover deleted files that are not in the Recycle Bin, but this is only possible if they have not been overwritten. It is therefore important to do as little as possible on your computer until you have tried to recover the files as any activity that writes to the disk may overwrite the data making it (virtually) unrecoverable. This is possible because Windows does not actually delete the data when you "delete" a file, it simply removes the reference to where that data exists on the disk, and thereby making that disk space available for writing.

There are many tools available for this, including several free ones. Have a look on "MajorGeeks.com", they have some appropriate data recovery tools there (if possible, use a different computer to avoid overwriting the data - unless you can recover ALL of the data files recovering the project may become impossible).