Friday, June 3, 2016

How to recover your deleted data/pictures...

Many times you will accidentally delete your data, either by hitting the delete key or losing your data to a quirky GoPro studio crashing problem with Windows 10...
 
First and Foremost don't panic, this is an easy problem to recover from...

First: Try holding down your ctrl key and the letter Z, if that doesn't work, go to the next step...
 
Second: check your trash, it might be there, but if the file was too big for the trash it might not be there...
 
Third: Just open your file explorer, and go to your recent folder under users; once there find your user name and open that folder and look for AppData, if you don't see it, do the following:
- Windows 10 go to File Change Folder and search option/view now put a mark in Show hidden files, folders and drives under Hidden Files and Folder, now hit apply/ok
- Window 7 go to organize then follow the above...
 
You will now see AppData open it up, now go to roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent Items double click Viola there is your folder/files you just deleted and you saved yourself an outrageous service bill...

sidenote: It may ask if you would like to restore your data to desktop, just say yes, then move the files/folder where they need to be.
 
One thing that is very important when you delete your data is to not wait to recover your files and do not continue to work on your computer because you will overwrite your files and then you'll have to use a recovery program, which is a step you can prevent if you just follow the above method...
 
As for the GoPro quirky studio program with Windows 10, consider using VLC player instead...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Another note to mention is that Microsoft can turn off Delete Confirmation, and considering that everyone has been used to this feature being turned on can cause you to delete your files accidentally...

If you aren't getting confirmations when you delete a file and you want to enable this feature, just right click on your Recycle Bin and go to properties, once there put a check mark in "Display delete confirmation dialog" box...

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