Recover Deleted Files

If you’ve accidentally deleted a file, you may or may not be able to get it back. The two key factors are 1) what kind of drive the files were on, and 2) whether you were in Enterprise Organizer Pro when you deleted them.

First, what kind of drive the files were on. The three main types are local hard disk, removable drive, and network drive.

If the files were on a local drive (a drive that’s in your computer), just use the Windows Recycle Bin to recover them.

For files on a removable drive (basically any USB drive) or a network drive, the deletion is probably permanent.

However, if you did the deletion within Enterprise Organizer Pro AND you had Enterprise Organizer Pro’s "Recycle Bin" feature turned on (Settings > Miscellaneous), Enterprise Organizer Pro will put the files in its own recycle bin. There will be a folder in the bottom of the drive where the cabinet is called "Enterprise Organizer Pro Recycle Bin" and you can find them there.

As a last-ditch option, there’s a chance you can recover the files if the deletion was very recent. In a nutshell, when you delete something, Windows doesn’t really delete it. Rather, Windows just marks the file as deleted in the drive’s "table of contents" to note that the space is now available. Until Windows actually writes another file over that space, the old file is still there.

There are lots of file recovery utilities out there. Any one of them works as well as any other. The gotcha is that if Windows has put a new file in the space where your old file was, the old file is gone.