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UnDeleting Shift + Del Files


I recently lost a file from my computer due to my habit of shift + deleting files which was really important. This is when I tried anything and everything to get it back. (Sadly I didn’t)

Now to prevent this from happening to you here is a quick guide on how you can un-delete these files.

For the people who dont know the Shift + Del function, it is a fast way of deleting a file permanently from your pc without using the recycle bin. The only thing different is that its very hard to recover a shift deleted file (until now)

I have tried an endless list of programs that “claim” that they can un delete shift deleted files but most og them just plain LIE! After searching the web far and wide I came to the tool that is the only thing that I found did what it said!

Symantec’s Norton GoBack 4.0 is this program. Now right about now you are probably whoaing and cursing Norton and its products but trst me this one is different. With a low memory footprint of about 6 - 7 MB Norton GoBack provides an exellent way to get that accidentally deleted files!

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When you have GoBack running restoring any file is as easy as pie! What you should look for when in the program is the “Advanced Disk Drive Restore” Function :

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Once you click on this you will see a log of the deletions/modifications that have been going on in your system. All you have to do is look for the file you want to restore in this list, right click and select Restore Drives C: D: to this event. (Drive names may vary.)

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Once you do that you will see this dialog box :

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Select the Previous option and then click OK when you see this dialog box :

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Once you do this, Norton GoBack will restart you system and when it is done restarting you wil lfind that same file you Shift + Del in the location you had deleted it from!

I have really spent a lot of time looking at utilities that do such a thing and Norton GoBack is about the only one that worked.

Note: You can only recover the files that you delete when GOBack is running, any file deleted when it is not running/installed cannot be recovered.

Hope this helped.

GoBack’s Url : http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/pr…recovery/ngb40/

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