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    Where do deleted files go across the network

    This is a sad story. I have a client whose files were deleted from his computer
    on the LAN by another user by accident. How? I don't know.
    We checked both recycle bins and nothing was there.
    We used some forensic utilties to see if anything was there
    and there was nothing.
    Does anyone know where deleted files go over a LAN?
    Please advise.
    Thanks,
    Roland

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    Into the great beyond. There is no "network recycle bin". The only way to try and salvage some of the files is running some type of recovery program on the physical system that had the files on it. Also tell the user to NOT use the computer until you try and salvage the files or he could overwrite the empty space with something else and they would be gone for good.

    Check out this tool. Mileage may vary.

    Also since the files are gone I don't really have to put a disclaimer so I'm not going to but just and FYI you are doing this at your own risk.
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    Thanks for the help.



    Quote Originally Posted by Gollo
    Into the great beyond. There is no "network recycle bin". The only way to try and salvage some of the files is running some type of recovery program on the physical system that had the files on it. Also tell the user to NOT use the computer until you try and salvage the files or he could overwrite the empty space with something else and they would be gone for good.

    Check out this tool. Mileage may vary.

    Also since the files are gone I don't really have to put a disclaimer so I'm not going to but just and FYI you are doing this at your own risk.

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    I'm afraid that Gollo is right and your files stand a chance of having gone to the land where deleted files never return. You don't say wich operating system you are using but in the olden days there were utilities which you could use to restore the directory entry of the file name and hopefully the data portion of the file, provided the system hadn't reused the disk sector to write another file in. This is probably what Gollo's utility will attempt to do. Be careful you don't thrash data in any file residing in these "crosslinked" sector. Good luck!

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    Hope it's a NT-based computer...
    Try the NT Undelete from Executive Software.
    You can get it here: http://www.executivesoftware.com/products/productsr.asp
    The one that I used some time ago was a 30-day trial and I had great success on a NT4 server.
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    If this is a Novell network you are good to go. You should be able to find the files you are looking for with the use of the NetWare Utilities>Salvage files tools. I have no idea were you will find the files on a M$ Network. Oh one other place you will find the files for sure is YOUR BACK UP TAPES you do have a backup solution in place dont you??? what ever happened to permissions of directories?
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