Recuva: Undo Accidental File Deletion

Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by Eric in Convenience, Downloads

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file? Perhaps you deleted a file thinking that you no longer needed it, only to discover days later that you desperately need it back. A couple years back I had this experience. After writing a 5 page paper, I turned it in to my professor and deleted it from my computer. Big mistake! A week later he handed everyone else in the class back their papers, except me. After confronting him, I learned that he “had not received it.” Essentially he lost my paper, which forced me to write it over again. For this reason I feel compelled to spread the word about Recuva and the wonderful things that it can do.

Recuva is a free application, which allows you to recover deleted files. One of Recuva’s great features is that it displays the likelihood of recovering each deleted file it finds. It performs this task by placing a green, yellow, or red dot beside each file. Once you identify the file you want to save, all you have to do is click “restore.” Moments later your file will, hopefully, be accessible once again.

Data forensics can be a real challenge. All too often, once a file is deleted, it can’t be recovered. Fortunately, that is not always the case; occasionally you can raise your files from the dead with fantastic applications like Recuva. Be sure to remember one important thing about file recover, the sooner you try to recover a deleted file, the greater the chances of saving it. Even rebooting your computer can overwrite your precious file.

For those of you who are devout Portable Apps users, Recuva also comes in a portable version so you can take it with you, where ever you go.

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Tags: file recovery, Recuva, undelete