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I just needed a old file i deleted a few days back and I googled and got pandora recovery tool.
I was wondering how I can recover an item after deleting it from recycle bin.
After i delete a file how can it be restored ?
A delete operation only doesn't remove the files from hard disk but those files are still there until some other file replaces/overwrites the previous file.
A common misconception is that the data is actually removed from the hard drive (erased) when you delete a file. Any time that a file is deleted on a hard drive, it is not erased. Instead, the tiny bit of information that points to the location of the file on the hard drive is erased. This pointer, along with other pointers for every folder and file on the hard drive, is saved in a section near the beginning of the hard drive and is used by the operating system to compile the directory tree structure. By erasing the pointer file, the actual file becomes invisible to the operating system. Eventually, the hard drive will write new data over the area where the old file is located.
There are so many open source software to undelete a file from
MiniTool Power Data Recovery (Free Edition)- http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/download.html
You can recover upto 1 GB
Recuva - http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
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I tried deleting my last microsoft account because it had an email I no longer had access to. I now have a new 'main' account on my windows 10 PC. But somehow the old account still exists and takes up a lot of space from my disk. I can't see the files of the old account in my explorer, so I can't delete them but they do take up disk space. As you can see in the pictures below, it says that nearly all 250 GB of my disk are used according to the explorer. But if I check how much actual disk space should be used with WinDirStat it only says I have files that are 91.4GB on my hard drive. Any tips would be welcome.
You say that you are using WinDirStat. You can use WinDirStat to remove the directories which take too much space. In case this does not work, you can launch WinDirStat as administrator: as an administrator you have access to all files on your computer (right-click and mention "Als Administrator uitvoeren").
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So, I recently have had a problem! My C: drive is pretty full. I have the D: drive, and I have a folder there, where I could put my Desktop's files on. I'm running Windows, specifically Windows 10. So, what I wanted to ask is - is there a way to NOT copy files from other drives but just move them? I have shortcuts to all of my folders (Files, photos, etc...) which go on my Desktop, but due to low space I have the files on the other drive. It copies the files there instead of moving them.
This question should've gone on superuser lol
The way drives are organized all you can really do is copy a file from one drive to another, then delete the original. You could theoretically have a tool that treats that two-step operation as if it were a simple move, but there's nothing I'm aware of that does that.
Update:
You could use symbolic links (like shortcuts, but better for some purposes) to make files on your D: drive behave in many ways as if they were on your C: drive:
mklink [[/d] | [/h] | [/j]] <Link> <Target>
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/
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Google Drive has told me I have 200,000 files in my trash/bin, taking up 19GB. I've repeatedly tried clicking the "Empty Bin" option in browser, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
I called Google Drive Support, and the guy said that when you click Empty Bin, it only gets rid of what your browser has loaded... He recommended scrolling and then clicking empty bin occasionally. What kind of a suggestion is that? I said I have 200,000 files in my bin, which he already knew, and apologised, saying it was the only way.
I'm experiencing the very same thing right now:
I accidentally synced a huge folder containing > 300GB worth of stuff,
so I quickly reached the 15GB limit without realising the issue
I moved this folder to the bin, clicked empty bin, but it struggles to
load, and when it does it loads and displays more folders, suggesting
that emptying bin contents only deletes what is displayed in the bin
However...
I believe it is deleting the bin contents, just very slowly
The 'Storage' level at the bottom of the left panel goes down by 0.1GB every few minutes. I believe it's iterating through every bin item and removing it permanently, hence why it's taking so long.
Hope that info helps someone else too!
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I created a new filesystem (F: - destination) and synced with another (E:\ - source). Curiously my new FS had 7GB of difference from source FS.
I found out that the file below has 8GB (size) and 1GB (used) in source and 8GB (size) and 8GB (used) in destination.
I don't know if I can delete this file safely. I think no!
E:\System Volume Information\DFSR\SimilarityTable_1
Questions:
(1) What's this file?
(2) How can I fix it?
It is an internal database file used to keep track of signatures for content that the distributed file system has seen. This way, given a new signature, it can generate new files based on chunks of data it already has.
Cross File RDC:
by using a special hidden
sparse file (located in drive:\system volume
information\dfsr\similaritytable_1) to track all these signatures, we
can use other similar files that we already have to build our copy of
a new file locally. Up to five of these similar files can be used. So
if an upstream server says "I have file X and here are its RDC
signatures", we the downstream server can say "ah, I don't have that
file X. But I do have files Y and Z that have some of the same
signatures, so I'll grab data from them locally and save you having to
transmit it to me over the wire."
Depending on what you are trying to do, it is safe to delete that directory and clean up the old database files. See this manual for the steps involved (and when to do so).
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I puts all my dotfiles in $HOME/Dropbox/dotfiles
and make a hard link(I think it's the way to go, and for instance vim does't load soft link rc file)
ln $HOME/Dropbox/dotfiles/.vimrc $HOME/.vimrc
The problem is as long as I make change to the file in the dropbox directories, everything works as expected. But when I change the hard link file(which is $HOME/.vimrc), the original file changes accordingly, but dropbox won't sync!!(same as iCloud mobile document folder)
Any idea?
Use soft links. Hard links make it so that Dropbox can't tell when the file is updated. This is because Dropbox doesn't poll the contents of every single file you have, it just looks at modification dates on the files located in your Dropbox.
This is exactly what I use for syncing my dot files with Dropbox:
$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/.vimrc .vimrc
and vim still loads the soft-linked vimrc file.