Recent content by Antipodean

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    Recovered files unreadable

    Thanks Youngster, an excellent idea but I think I've overwritten it. I also tried restore, which kinda proves it. Dumb!! Fortunately, I made a disk copy of my files last year, so I've only got to reconstruct the past twelve months of accounting records....Yep, from now on, I'm going to save on...
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    Recovered files unreadable

    Thanks pjmelect. Agood suggestion, butworried that it might overwrite or damage the data, particularly as my efforts in poking around changing names via regedit may be incomplete. I suspect the original name is still in there on at least one entry. I'm out of my experience level on this one...
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    Recovered files unreadable

    Moved doc, docx, xls, xlsx, jpg files from a backup drive to a new computer. Files showed up, and I used them for a few days. As it was a demo computer I changed the owner name via regedit. Then could not locate the files. Have used two undelete programs, these locate the files. When...