Something stupid I've done.

[Raymond]

I've got a big problem, I made a big-ass map that I've spended hours and hours to create. But I had a bug so I deleted MTA:SA but when the text message "Do you want to remove all the other files too?" I pressed "Yes" without thinking about my actual map! So now I'm really f'ed. Does anyone know how I can return the map files I had in that folder? I searched my whole PC and it's not in the bin. Also used the search function but couldn't find anything!

Can I get my files back in any way? I also didn't made a backup SO STUPID!

I hope anyone knows how to get it back.

Regards,

Raymond

[Zango]

Try system restore if it's that tragic

[Raymond]

How can I do that? I'm using windows 7, can I set it one hour back or something?

[Zango]

If you did a system restore point an hour ago you would be happy

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/70 ... store.html

follow that guide

[Raymond]

I did system restore but it didn't helped. I still don't got the files . Now maybe it's because I re-installed MTA:SA after it?

[Raymond]

If you did a system restore point an hour ago you would be happy

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/70 ... store.html

follow that guide

It doesn't takes the MTA files, it only goes from that update it doesn't effects on any documents..

[robhol]

If you installed or saved any other files after that (regardless of where, mostly) you are, basically, shit out of luck. Sorry.

[Arran]

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Might help.

[dzek (varez)]

robhol - it depends.

Raymond: There is a lot of tools to recover files. Most of them suck and won't help you. There is one good (but results are not guarranted anyway) - but:

1. It will restore all files of specified type (in this case: text files) (probably you will get thousands of files!)

2. You need addional storage to store recovered files (ANY SAVE OPERATION ON YOUR DISK = lowering chances to restore) [this matches for ANY restoring app]

3. It will take about 6h to restore files from 120GB HDD. If you got more - you may need even few days for it. Depends of size, fragmentation, disk speed.

4. This tool isn't perfect. Sometimes it restores few GB of data, because it thinks it is one file (well, searching throguh rubbish (all deleted stuff mixed up) isn't probably simple) - so you really need your place-to-save-restored-files to have A LOT of free space - or operation will break, and you will need to start it over again! You can browse files while they are being recovered.

Tools:

1. Smaller, free, not often giving any results: Restoration

2. Bigger (40MB?), NOT FREE, sucks, but ppl like it (dunno why, never restored anything with this) OnTrack Easy Recovery

3. Small, free, best, but not supporting searching for files, but recovering everything of specified site, almost not having GUI, TestDisk (and it's part: PhotoRecovery - you need to run this one!)

Search for download links on Google.

[Moo-Mapper]

when you delete a file, the file is marked as empty space until the hdd is full

so, i think this quote will help you

[SugarD-x]

Not necessarily. It will use the marked space at any time it decides to. The HDD doesn't need to be full for it to do it.

[Deltanic]

Read this:

-System restore will NOT work. Ever. System restore will only restore files that are affected by (how can it be else) the system. So that contains updates, programs, drivers and that kind of stuff. Not your personal folders.

-Now, do you have WinXP or anything newer? If newer, read on. If XP, I'm not sure, but that system doesn't have the following option.

Right-mouse-click on the folder where your maps where before. Click properties, and select the tab "previous versions". If there's something inside, you are probably rescued. If not, then you are probably screwed. You could try some recovery program as told before by other posters.

Click here for more information about that "Previous Versions". Skip to paragraph 2.1 to see how it's done with MW2, but works the same for everything else.

[[DKR]Jake]

Everybody always says 'system restore this', or 'system restore that', what if you don't have system restore?

[SugarD-x]

If you have XP or above, which I'm assuming you do, you have System Restore.

[eAi]

But system restore restores system files, not user files.

[SugarD-x]

That is true. Sorry if it sounded like I was saying that would work, because it wouldn't. I was just replying to the user that said he didn't "have" System Restore lol

[[DKR]Jake]

If you have XP or above, which I'm assuming you do, you have System Restore.

You also have the option to disable it, which I always have done.

It wastes up space tbh.

[SugarD-x]

Well you said you didn't have it, not that you didn't disable it

[[DKR]Jake]

You'd think that not having something would be the same as disabling it. in theory.