Deanne,
Deleted files are very easy to recover IF you do no further processing on
the computer and you either:
use file recovery/unerase software
OR
use the MS Debug program to manually change the delete flag for each
file.
This is made possible becuase the comoputer does not actually erase a
file, it simply replaces the first character of the file name with a
question mark (?) and then pretends the file is not there. To undelete it
all you have to do is change the ? back to any character that is legal in
a file name. Of course if you wait too long there is more and more of a
chance that some or all of the file will be overwritten since the computer
considers it to be available disk space.
Also, this situation is a good example as to why you should backup your
hard disks. ((I know, you can't find reverse on your disk *G*)) Then in
the event of mental relapse or other catastrophic failure all you have
lost is what was entered after the last backup.
Bruce
55/9
<aka Starman>
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