Finally, a Good Freeware PC File Recovery
Today at work, I accidentally deleted my entire local web server root due to a ANT sync task that I had setup incorrectly.
I searched online for a way to recover these files since ANT doesn’t send them to the recycle bin or anything. I quickly came across a very nice, fast, easy-to-use file recovery application called Recova. I was happy to see that it was FREE as well.
I downloaded and installed it right away and began scanning. It found all the files that ANT had deleted within a couple of minutes. I was even able to filter on the path. Selection of the files was as easy as a single checkbox at the top to select everything. I click the button to start to recover and was going to choose the same disk that the files came from–it warned me this would not be a good idea because I could possibly overwrite the deleted files. I changed the directory to a different disk and chose to have it maintain folder structure.
It worked perfectly and now I am back up and running in less than 30 minutes. I have an ongoing backup, the issue with that is that it only occurs once a day and so had I restored from that, I would have lost my work from part of yesterday. This recovery was possible because the files had just been deleted.
Also, I would like to note that I was in Windows. Naturally, if I was on my Mac, I would have used Time Machine







source control?
Actually I do have a source control enabled for many of my projects but not some of the smaller ones. Hard to keep up with some times.
Very good program indeed…
Recuva is portable as well…
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1139
NICE! Good to know!
I got my deleted file using Disk Doctors Undelete. I had accidentally deleted some of the office files. The software was able to find and recover them all. Data Recovery software, can help you get back what you have lost if you have taken right action at the right point of time.
http://www.diskdoctors.net/
There are many solutions on the market to recover deleted files but Easy File Undelete is one of the best:
http://www.munsoft.com/EasyFileUndelete/
It uses unique state-of-art algorithms to recover as many data as it is possible and can help ro recover deleted files even if their location and size is not stored in the file system structures.