Yes..I deleted an important file. 'my downloads' I had made it a shortcut on my desktop and I decided to delete the shortcut since I don't use it much. Now I can't find the file. :confused: I am thinking maybe it was not a shortcut afterall, but the file itself. I even emptied 'Recycle Bin' Is that file lost for good? :cry:

Oh Kitty...

Usually, you can delete a shortcut without afflicting the file/folder itself - a shortcut is nothing more than a link from the desktop to the respective file/folder (at least it should be like this, but who knows - that's Windows...:D).

Click on "Start" on the lower left corner of the screen and select "Search" from the menu. Enter the name of the file/folder and let the computer search in all partitions/harddrives. When you find the file, you can create a shortcut again. If not, you have actually cleared the bin, and all data is lost - you have to create the file again.

I hope that you don't have cleared all your nasty pics... :lol:

What pics?? :lol:

I deleted the entire folder. I did what u said and it is not there.


Somma bitch...:irked:

In this case, you haven't created a shortcut but actually placed the entire folder on your desktop - bummer.

You will recognize a shortcut by the little symbol with the arrow in the lower left of the respective icon - keep that in mind next time you're going to delete something from your desktop.

And you know exactly well which pics... :lol:

There are programs out there that can recovered deleted files, but unfortunately I can't find any free ones and the ones that are trial-ware has such small recovery size limitations that they would be useless to you. If I can find anything, I will let you know though.

The last one that I used was called UNDELETE, but that was back in the 80's. It was bulletproof and always worked.

I have found SOME for Windows long file names over the years, but they never seem to work worth a damn.