Things You'll Need:
- A PC
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Step 1
For most pc files, when you click "delete" to throw away a file, you aren't actually deleting that file in the normal sense. What you're doing is simply placing the file in the Recycle Bin. Files will remain the Recycle Bin for a specified time and eventually they will be completely gone.
While the file is in the Recycle Bin you can still retrieve it. Here are the steps for recovering a deleted file that has yet to age or space out of the Recycle Bin:
First, you must double click the Recycle Bin folder that usually sits on the desktop. -
Step 2
Arrange the information so that you can find the title. ex: If you know the name of the file you can click on the "name" column to alphabetically sort the items by name.
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Step 3
Once you have found the file you wish to recover you can highlight it.
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Step 4
Once the file has been highlighted you want to right click and then choose "restore." This will retrieve the file and put it back in the folder that it was in before it was deleted. If you don't remember where it was before you deleted it you can always drop down to the start member and perform a "search" for the file name.
Comments
2besure said
on 3/2/2009 Thanks, I have had this happen before.
knowball said
on 3/2/2009 have to remember this! 5*
quadjr4 said
on 3/1/2009 great article thanks 5*
andrewmang said
on 2/27/2009 You can also recover files that you deleted from the recycle bin as long as they haven't been overwritten. 5*!
starinfo said
on 2/11/2009 Thanks for the info. I am quite sure that you have helped someone who gets frantic when they assume their file is gone. 5*****