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Recover files from Temp User Profile
Hello all,
I recently moved all of a Users files into a Temp User profile created by windows 7. After a reboot the Temp User profile disappeared. I tried a system restore to about 10 minutes before, in which the Temp folder reappeared. However, It does not have any of the files. It seemed to have deleted them. Iv'e tried various File recover programs and they do not seem to find any files. Is there a certain location where these files could have been stored? Is there any way to recover these files??
I recently moved all of a Users files into a Temp User profile created by windows 7. After a reboot the Temp User profile disappeared. I tried a system restore to about 10 minutes before, in which the Temp folder reappeared. However, It does not have any of the files. It seemed to have deleted them. Iv'e tried various File recover programs and they do not seem to find any files. Is there a certain location where these files could have been stored? Is there any way to recover these files??
Windows 7
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peter waters
The system restore you ran restored to the time the temp profile was created, and at that time it obviously was still empty as you hadn't copied anything to it yet.
When you use recovery software, you must run that from another PC to which you attach the disk you want to recover from, so that nothing gets written to that disk. Windows always writes to it's disks and so overwrites places on which deleted files were previously, so the chance of recovery gets lower and lower with every minute of usage.
The best such tool is getdataback. You use it to scan the disk, and when it sees the files you need, you register it so you can copy the data off.
http://runtime.org
Besides that, you have backups of user data, so it would be simpler and cheaper just to restore the needed files from the backups.
When you use recovery software, you must run that from another PC to which you attach the disk you want to recover from, so that nothing gets written to that disk. Windows always writes to it's disks and so overwrites places on which deleted files were previously, so the chance of recovery gets lower and lower with every minute of usage.
The best such tool is getdataback. You use it to scan the disk, and when it sees the files you need, you register it so you can copy the data off.
http://runtime.org
Besides that, you have backups of user data, so it would be simpler and cheaper just to restore the needed files from the backups.
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Stumped - seems like all the files are gone
You may be able to restore the system to a point in time before you moved everything.