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I have deleted user by "Delete user folder (safe)" mode in Mac OS X V 10.7.5. Please, don't ask me why, but now I need it.
I am googling it, but nothing usefull. I found some folders with name like "6 17-11-10-062.0", "6 17-11-10-062.0", "6 17-31-31-784.0" and "6.0" in my trash. What is it?
How can I recover user data? What program can help me? Sorry for my English. Thaks :)
If you used the "Delete the home folder" with "Erase home folder securely" option, there's no way to recover it. If you had not chosen the "Erase ... securely" option (and not done much else with the computer after deleting the account), you might've been able to use data recovery software to find & recover at least some of the files. But what the "... securely" option does is to overwrite the deleted files to make sure they're really really gone and unrecoverable. That's what they mean by secure deletion.
There's a slight possibility that you might be able to use data recovery software to find traces of files that were deleted normally (insecurely) from the account before the account itself was deleted. But I wouldn't expect to find much, and what you would find would be (by definition) old versions and other things you considered unimportant.
If you are interested in trying to do data recovery, stop using the computer immediately. Shut it down and use some other computer to research your options (this superuser question is a good place to start). The more you use the computer, the more of the old files will be unrecoverable because the space they were stored in is continuously getting reused for new files, and once it's reused, whatever was there before is gone.
I don't know what the folders you found in your trash are, but I'm pretty sure they're nothing to do with the deleted account. Sorry, but unless you have a backup, I think you're not going to be able to get much of anything.
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OS handle file deletion I came to know that Mac Os doesn't provide individual file deletion from trash can and can only empty everything why is that.
It's just a UX decision. If you're so minded, open the terminal and navigate to ~/.Trash to rm files one by one on the Mac. Apple's version of the trash can metaphor is that you put things in it, then tip it all away. Not that you put things in it, then pick through it deciding which things you really, really don't want. Like a real trash can.
macOS does provide individual file deletion from the Trash, it's just a little bit hidden. If you open the trash and secondary-click(*) on an item in it, you'll get a shortcut menu that includes the "Delete Immediately" choice.
*) "Secondary-click" is the macOS equivalent of right-clicking. By default, the right button on a multi-button does a secondary-click, as does holding the Control key while doing a standard click. Other options can be configured in the Mouse and Trackpad preferences in System Preferences. See Apple support document #HT207700: How to right-click on Mac.
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I've been trying to delete this extremely stubborn folder and nothing seems to work. First I tried the disk cleanup tool in the windows control panel, then CCleaner, and finally followed by a barrage of cmd tricks. I think one of the sub-files located under System32 is corrupt, because when I go to delete it normally I get the "The system could not find the specified item..." error. I even tried taking ownership of all files and folders within Windows.old, but was STILL denied access! Please help!
It's pretty simple to remove:
Click in Windows' search field, type Cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.
Click the "Clean up system files" button.
Wait a bit while Windows scans for files, then scroll down the list until you see "Previous Windows installation(s)."
Select Previous Windows installation and anything else you want to remove and select OK.
If you've made all these attempts to remove it already though, you may have broken Windows ability to remove the folder.
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A friend of mine factory reset her computer on Windows 10, and lost an important document, so I'm wondering if there is a way for her to get it back, any help is useful.
I realize that a factory reset sets the computer back to it's original state of when it was first purchased, but I'm just curious if there are any free or cheap options available, besides going to a recover specialist.
Any advice would be nice - thanks!
Download the free version of Piriform Recuva. It is something I have used before for basic file recovery, and I don't know of a simpler GUI tool for Windows. Simply follow the instructions of this tutorial, or search for a simple video tutorial on YouTube if that is insufficient.
To maximize your chances of recovery reduce the amount of writes to the drive- setting it to read-only for example. Avoiding doing anything else while you attempt to recover the files is critical, newer files may silently destroy whatever is left of the older data. If at all possible you should attempt to boot from a drive or disk that doesn't contain the erased data, but if that is not possible/not something you know how to do then you may still be able to recover the data by booting the computer normally.
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I have run msconfig and select safe mode in minimal option. After restarting, it keeps on loading repeatedly. I have tried to select Last Known Configuration but it returns back on loading. I could not log on and disable the safe mode in minimal. There is one option, to repair it . If I choose to repair Windows, will it go back to normal mode?Are all files still intact even if I proceed to repair it? I never had tried this option. Please help me. Are there any options other than repairing Windows to go back in normal mode?
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It seems like your facing a thing called infinite loop. This is probably caused because your bootmanager file is corrupted. You can try fixing it by using the link that opens when you click bootmanager in the previous sentence (requires some knowledge of Windows).
If you want to learn more about the bootmanager (and how it works) click here. Although you should only read it when you are interested in fixing it manually (requires some knowledge of Windows).
To answer your original question, whenever you select an option from the start-up repair screen that will remove some of your personal files it will tell you before deleting anything.
I've also faced this problem (it wasn't really the same as yours, but there are multiple issues that are called infinite loop as they are caused by the same error). I've ended up re-installing Windows. The good thing of Windows 7 is that whenever you re-install Windows it will ask you if you want to keep your old files, if you decide to keep the old files the installer will automatically add a folder to you main drive (usually C) named Windows.old which will contain your old data. Note that documents, your desktop and pictures etc. are saved, your Program Files directory will be copied to, but you will probably need to re-install all your programs. But in the end, you will keep your documents.
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Is it possible to limit a folder size in Windows so that when a user tries to write to the folder when it is full he receives an error message?
Keep in mind that Disk Quotas are per user not per folder, there are other solutions that will allow you to lock down a folder size regardless of user, my experience has been with Veritas Storage Exec, but it seems to be discontinued.
Do you mean disk quotas as described at, e.g. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Disk-Quotas-Windows-2003.html?
Have a look at Quotas for NTFS file systems..
The Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Companion recommends using the File Server Resource Manager instead of the older "disk quota" feature since these allow per-directory settings. (I'm not familiar with this tool myself; after 5 mins of playing around with it, I still have no idea how to actually do this. There certainly is a column for "quota", however.)
Another trick is to create a new volume and then use a symbolic link (see MKLINK) to map the directory to that volume. (MKLINK is Vista/2008 and later; for XP/2003 use NTFS junctions.)
It depends on how limiting you want to be. :)
For example, it's not difficult to write a program that listens/monitors a folder and displays a message box error/warning in case the user exceeds his quota. But that doesn't prevent him from exceeding it - just notifies him he did so.