Recover Deleted Files - Free

Hi, Bob! What about PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Looks like another good one, thanks. The link is http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1

I would love something like that for Ubuntu Linux. I've only seen these programs for Windows. Do you have any suggestions? The only things I know of in Linux are backup programs and taking care not to delete anything I'll need later. Thanks.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Run a google search for "recover deleted files linux". It seems there are several good solutions.

Every once in a while Outlook Express suggests that we compact our email files to save space. On two occasions, one being yesterday, it deleted the last 30 days of email from my inbox. Nothing else seems to be awry. Both times this happened when the compacting process had to be stopped in order to do something else on the computer. (When the copying and compacting is going on, everything else is dead slow.) However it wasn't the inbox that was being processed when we cancelled the compacting. It was another folder completely. But both times it's been my inbox that has the most recent 30 days missing. Is there any way to recover those messages? Thanks!

Paul, I don't know if those messages can be recovered but I do know that you should not do anything to interfere with the mail compacting process. It may slow the computer down but it only takes a few minutes and it's worth it to just wait and let it do its thing. I think that one thing it does during compacting is make back-ups of your messages, so hopefully, the third time will be a charm for you and you will not make this mistake again.

Bob, this past weekend, I used your archives to find a way to recover the partition on my external hard drive. Your post from June 11, 2007 did the trick so I'm posting to say 'thank you for being there for me,' and to give credit to the people who developed TestDisk; it did the trick.

Do you remember the old commercial, "How do you spell relief?" Well, your post was a source of great relief for me so I've taken the liberty of nicknaming you, Bob R-O-L-A-I-D-S Rankin! Thanks again! (I know, it's a little corny. But ask my kids and they'll confirm I am often quite corny!)

Paul Danielson: Go to the Microsoft support site and search for the issue with compacting errors with outlook express. There is a patch you can download that automatically sends the dbx files (that hold your email) to recycle bin in case of error.
You could also undelete the dbx files from the store folder and get the emails back that way. (Undelete them, then copy them over existing ones).

Bob: One tip that should also be mentioned is that you should stop using the drive as the OS will overwrite files marked as deleted. The more use your drive has, the more likely corrupted the files will be. Run the recovery program off an USB drive, and save the files to the USB drive or different drive. You don’t want to be undeleting files to the drive with the deleted files

I recently had a large and important text file "disappear." Neither of the these programs listed here helped.
What finally did work was using Advanced File Recovery on http://www.advanced-file-recovery.com/. From my experience, it is a brilliant and reliable recovery software.

applexsoft file recovery is supposed to be very good, but not free

applexsoft file recovery

Just because you delete data that they disappear completely from your hard drive! If you click "Remove" or even if you reformat your hard disk, your data is still in your PC. Read more from the guide here:
http://forums.techarena.in/reviews/1292574.htm

Bob Rankin is the best!