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Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

I'm almost crying

Slightly exagerating...

Alright so I was deleting all my useless pictures in my "My Pictures" folder. I save any "random" pictures I get from the Internet there.

Within the "My Pictures" folder, I have my "Photoshop" folder which has folders for all my PNGs,PSDs,Avatars,C4Ds,Textures,Stock,Renders,etc. As I was saying, I was only deleting the pictures in "My Pictures" not the ones in my "Photoshop" folder.

Next thing you know, there's nothing but my "Texture" folder in my "Photoshop" folder left. Wtf?! I started panicking, though of System Restore but apparently I never had any previous restore point...

I do know I pressed "Ctrl+A" to select all the pictures then went to Shift+Delete them(delete permanently) so I'm guessing it somehow selected my "Photoshop" folder but it still woudn't make sense because the "Photoshop" folder is still there with the "Textures" folder in it.

What do? That's like literally a year of GFXing gone. :soosad:

Shomari · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2341 **Location:** Limbo

See if this will work.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/re ... u-live-cd/

I'd follow the photorec part since you only want to recover your photoshop stuff.

Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

Shomari wrote:

See if this will work.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/re ... u-live-cd/

So do I need Ubuntu for it? Looks really complicated too.

Shomari · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2341 **Location:** Limbo

ExSoldier wrote:

Shomari wrote:

See if this will work.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/re ... u-live-cd/

So do I need Ubuntu for it? Looks really complicated too.

ISO

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
you don't need this if you can burn the ISO onto a CD :arrow:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal- ... -as-1-2-3/

Then once you do that put the CD in (or flash drive) and the CD should boot up to Ubuntu (The flash drive probably won't so you'll have to press F2 or ESC when your computer is booting up - then just change your boot loader to the CD or flash drive)
Follow Instructions Get on the floor everybody walk the dinosaur
Profit.

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
You could try some of these (Found them while looking for the USB installer lol)
http://www.pendriveapps.com/software/po ... ics-tools/

Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

Managed to recover like half of them through Recuvia but most of them are now corrupted.

At least I have the PNGs of them on DeviantArt I guess...

I don't get why Windows didn't make a restore point at like every Critical Update. It does it for my sisters laptop...

Shomari · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2341 **Location:** Limbo

ExSoldier wrote:

Managed to recover like half of them through Recuvia but most of them are now corrupted.

At least I have the PNGs of them on DeviantArt I guess...

I don't get why Windows didn't make a restore point at like every Critical Update. It does it for my sisters laptop...

There is probably an option for that.
-Thats why I always keep a copy of my most current work on my flash drive and dropbox. I also copy all of my work every three weeks onto an external HDD.

Toasty · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 2568 **Location:**

recycle bin.

_Clitrix_ · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 am

Toasty wrote:

recycle bin.

beat me to it, but +1 to you!

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

In these situations, you hope you can learn from it.

BACK YOUR IMPORTANT SHIT UP

nuff said

Majorharper · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:44 pm

Paranoia is the best way to go here. Example: Dad has all important family picture on his main HDD, an External HDD, and another External HDD, which is never connected to any machine, unless for an update, when he is not connected to the internet... you should do the same i guess

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Oh dear @ExSoldier that sounds awful!
Well, Isn't there a way to repair corrupted files?

Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

_Clitrix_ wrote:

Toasty wrote:

recycle bin.

beat me to it, but +1 to you!

ExSoldier wrote:

I do know I pressed "Ctrl+A" to select all the pictures then went to Shift+Delete them(delete permanently)

Shomari wrote:

See if this will work.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/re ... u-live-cd/

I'd follow the photorec part since you only want to recover your photoshop stuff.

I'll try that later tonight.

*BlackFox wrote:

Oh dear @ExSoldier that sounds awful!
Well, Isn't there a way to repair corrupted files?

No idea man. Anyways it only managed to recover half the PNGs(which are already on my DeviantArt anyways), no the PSDs.

Shomari · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2341 **Location:** Limbo

You can try using this now (For future recovery):
http://www.redobackup.org/

panterr · **Joined:** Oct 2008 **Posts:** 505 **Location:**

Dont feel worse by not having a restore data point in your list, it will only reset options and installs, not your files.

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