Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!marva
From: marva@mntgfx.mentor.com (Marv Allenbrand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can a deleted directory be restored?
Message-ID: <1988Sep16.162218.1475@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 16 Sep 88 23:22:15 GMT
References: <504@poseidon.UUCP>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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From article <504@poseidon.UUCP>, by psrc@poseidon.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm):
> In article <37741@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>> In article <17959@mirror.TMC.COM> mguyott@prism.TMC.COM (Marc Guyott) writes:
>> | I deleted all of the files in a directory and then removed the directory.
>> | Is there any way that I can restore the directory so that I can then
>> | undelete the files using the Norton Utilities?
>> 
>> You'd think this would be possible, wouldn't you ;-)
>> My version of Norton explicitly says "you can't restore removed
>> directories". I tried. Rats.
> 
> I haven't tried it, but when I pick Undelete from the PC Tools Deluxe
> menu, it asks if I want to undelete files or directories. 
> 
PC Tools Deluxe will undelete a directory. I don't have the Norton Utilities, so
I'm afraid I don't know whether it has this capability.
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Marv Allenbrand                        ...!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!marva
Mentor Graphics Corp.                  marva@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM
(These are my opinions only and not those of Mentor Graphics Corp.)