View Profile gollum
 
Reply Thu 23 Apr, 2009 04:58 am
I just deleted a file in MicrosoftWord. Is there a way to get it back?
 
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Reply Thu 23 Apr, 2009 05:55 am

assuming you mean you deleted a Word document from your hard drive,
go to your desktop and click the Recycle Bin icon.

it should be there...
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View Profile DrewDad
 
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Reply Thu 23 Apr, 2009 11:36 am
Where was the file and what did you do to delete it?

If it is on a local hard drive, and you did not hold down shift while you deleted the file, then Region is correct.

If you permanently deleted the file (shift-delete) then you will need a file recovery program. (Google "free undelete") Make sure you install the program on a different partition from where the original file was, as every time you write to the disk, you risk overwriting where the file was.

If you deleted from a network drive, then you will need to restore from backup. You do have backups, right?
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