Hello everybody!
In this video, I am going to show you how to restore an accidentally deleted folder.
You will see several ways of doing it with Windows tools, and if standard methods fail
– I’ll show you what software will help you for sure.
If you did accidentally delete an important folder from desktop or another directory in
your computer, don’t panic: you can try restoring it without any third-party tools.
Cancel an action with a key shortcut
If you have just deleted a folder containing important data, you can restore it by pressing
Win+Z.
You can either delete a folder and press the key shortcut, or right-click and select “Undo
delete” – the folder will be back in a second.
Yet this method only works right after you deleted a file or folder.
Restore from the recycle bin If the folder was deleted some time ago, you
can try restoring it from the Recycle Bin.
To do it, open the Recycle Bin by clicking on its shortcut you can find on the desktop.
If you don’t see its icon there, go to Settings / Personalization / Themes / Desktop icon
settings and check the boxes to show the Recycle Bin on your desktop.
Go to the Recycle Bin, find the deleted folder, right-click on it and select Restore.
The deleted folder will be back in a second.
These two methods don’t work if you deleted the folder with the key shortcut Shift+Delete.
Restore from the previous version If the data was removed without using the
Recycle Bin but by using the Shift+Delete shortcut, or it was deleted and then the Recycle
Bin was emptied, you may start thinking they are lost forever.
Not yet - there is still a chance to get them back.
Open the File Explorer, find the folder where data was deleted from - in my case, that is
desktop - right-click, select Properties and go to the tab “Previous versions.”
In the window that opens you will see several versions of this folder, but with different
dates and time.
You can open them and see which one contains the folder you need, then select the one you
were looking for and click “Restore,” and the folder will be back to its place.
Restore from an archive You can also restore a folder from an archive.
Restoring from archives is possible if you have File History function enabled.
You can see how to turn it on by watching a video in our channel.
Find the link in the description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI3FQKdQ_Ow In order to restore a folder from File History,
go to the Start menu / Settings / Update and Security / Backup, click on “More options”
and select “Related settings” to click on “Restore files from a current backup.”
Choose a file or folder and click on “Restore to its original location” to have all files
back to their old places.
Files in the recycle bin and documents: how to change the default folder for documents
If all the methods I have described here couldn’t help you, Hetman Partition Recovery will do
the job, but you have to know where to look for the deleted folder.
For example, By default, documents, music and photos are
stored in the current user’s folder, C:\Users\Dmitry The files and folders deleted into the Recycle
Bin, are still in their original locations even after you delete them.
The system just hides them from your eyes and later wipes them by overwriting by other
new data.
The Recycle Bin only keeps shortcuts to location of the deleted files.
That is why you should look for the restored folder in its previous location where it had
been before it was deleted.
You can change the default location of the folder containing your documents by right-clicking
on it, choosing Properties, and then in the tab Location, you can change it by clicking
“Move” and then selecting another directory.
Alternatively, you can open the Start menu / Settings / System / Storage and then select
“Save locations” where you can select the disk where to store documents by default,
and then click Apply.
As a result, the user’s folder Documents will appear in the selected disk.
That is why before you start looking for the folder in its old place, make sure the default
path has not been modified in the settings.
Restore with hetman partition To restore a folder with this program, download
and run it.
Select the disk where the folder was stored, then select the analysis type in the recovery
wizard.
In my case, the files were deleted just recently, so I choose Fast scan and click Next, then
wait until the process is over, then click Finish.
Now find the folder you need, right-click on it and select Recovery.
This is when you choose the recovery method and click Next, then choose the directory
where you want to save the data, and finally click Recovery.
The recovery process can take some time.
Finished - the data has been recovered to the specified folder.
If the folder containing files was deleted a long time ago, or the Fast Scan didn’t
help you, run the Full Analysis, and then try to find the necessary data, or use the
search function.
To do it, give the full name of the file and click Find, then select the file you need
and recover it like I showed before.
That is all for now.
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