I’m running Windows 10 on my laptop. Yesterday I went to do some cleaning and didn’t realize that the downloads folder was selected. It cleaned me out of several important things, but only one I care about, a Word document.
My first thought was to check my Word autosaves, but it wasn’t until I went to do so that I realized apparently my docs haven’t been autosaving, go figure; I have docs from a year ago but nothing from the last 3 months. My next thought was one of the recovery programs floating around (I saw Recuva recommended here?), but so far my attempt to run a recovery scan in 2 out of 3 programs has crashed. If I could only deep scan and recover the Downloads folder specifically instead of the entire drive, I’m wondering if that would make a difference, but I can’t seem to find a program that will do so. I don’t even have much weighing down my hard drive, so I’m not sure why it’d be having a hard time running, but it is. And apparently because my computer hasn’t updated this week, it doesn’t have system restore point for me to revert to. I’m stuck and discouraged. If anyone has any ideas, I’d be grateful.
My first thought was to check my Word autosaves, but it wasn’t until I went to do so that I realized apparently my docs haven’t been autosaving, go figure; I have docs from a year ago but nothing from the last 3 months. My next thought was one of the recovery programs floating around (I saw Recuva recommended here?), but so far my attempt to run a recovery scan in 2 out of 3 programs has crashed. If I could only deep scan and recover the Downloads folder specifically instead of the entire drive, I’m wondering if that would make a difference, but I can’t seem to find a program that will do so. I don’t even have much weighing down my hard drive, so I’m not sure why it’d be having a hard time running, but it is. And apparently because my computer hasn’t updated this week, it doesn’t have system restore point for me to revert to. I’m stuck and discouraged. If anyone has any ideas, I’d be grateful.