The trick to learn how to retrieve deleted files is to first figure out where your deleted files were last seen. Obviously if you were working on a file opened up in an external hard drive or other external digital storage device such as a compact flash drive or camera memory card, you know that your missing file was deleted from that drive. But when you are working on your computer’s desktop and can no longer find an important Microsoft word document, that file can be hidden almost anywhere.
When you have transferred digital photographs from your camera to your computer’s hard drive and mysteriously can no longer find them, where are they? Are they on your camera memory card or somewhere on your computer’s internal hard drive? Many times, giving the situation a little thought, you can figure out where your files are most likely to be hidden away. But remember, if you have deleted the file, it will not show up on any file listings. If you have emptied your Windows recycle bin and hope to recover one of those files, the missing information is still on your computer’s hard drive but you must know precisely how to locate it. In all of these situations the best way to retrieve deleted files is to install the File Finder recovery disk and direct the File Finder program to enact a fast scan of both your computer’s hard drive and any digital storage device you suspect may have held your files.
