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From: billsey@nesbbx.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: How do I undelete files?
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Date: 14 May 91 06:34:16 GMT
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In article <1991May12.202549.13771@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>, David Stuve writes:

> I'm still not sure what happened about five minutes ago, but when I
> clicked on three files and selected 'delete' from the workbench
> menu (this was WB 2.0 36.69) It went bezerk and started deleting
> *ALL* of my files on that partition.

	Probably you hit the shift key while the disk icon was still selected.
That meant you selected those three files and the whole disk... That's why
the box tells you what you're deleting before it starts.

> By the time I'd stopped it about 15 megs worth of stuff had gone south.
> 
> So, is there a utility I can use to recover these files?

	Several, actually. If you haven't written anything back to that
drive yet, you can just run DiskDoctor on it. that'll recover any and all
files that it can. A better one, if the partition size is under about 40M,
is FixDisk (Currently version 1.2 I think), avaialbel in the PD/Shareware
arena. If you have another partition to recover to, or time to recover to
floppies, you can use DiskSalv (again, PD. By our own Hazy Dave. :-)

> Thanks,
> 
>  --Dave
> 
>  dstuve@prism.cs.orst.edu

  -Bill Seymour     nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com
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