Having changed computers a couple of times and transported data over, the other day I used "DupDetector" to sort through and delete duplicate files.
Dupdetector found and deleted 14,000 odd duplicates. Before pressing "empty deleted items" and losing literally gigs of family photos I wanted to doublecheck that it had done this correctly, by re-running the comparison between "My Pictures" and "Deleted Items".
But dupdetector couldn't "see" the recycling bin to build an index in it. So I thought I would simply move all the deleted items into a separate folder it could see and run the comparison from there.
I did this by ctrl-A selecting all items in the recycling bin and dragging them to the new folder.
Weird thing is, they don't show up in the new folder - and they don't show up anymore in deleted items either. Have I somehow force deleted them without realising it?
I suspect that VISTA is still treating the items as deleted (I didn't "restore to original location" - I just dragged) and that's why they're not showing - but they're not in deleted items either.
To be clear I have not at any time "emptied" my deleted items folder so the files really ought to be somewhere.
any thoughts?
thanks
Dupdetector found and deleted 14,000 odd duplicates. Before pressing "empty deleted items" and losing literally gigs of family photos I wanted to doublecheck that it had done this correctly, by re-running the comparison between "My Pictures" and "Deleted Items".
But dupdetector couldn't "see" the recycling bin to build an index in it. So I thought I would simply move all the deleted items into a separate folder it could see and run the comparison from there.
I did this by ctrl-A selecting all items in the recycling bin and dragging them to the new folder.
Weird thing is, they don't show up in the new folder - and they don't show up anymore in deleted items either. Have I somehow force deleted them without realising it?
I suspect that VISTA is still treating the items as deleted (I didn't "restore to original location" - I just dragged) and that's why they're not showing - but they're not in deleted items either.
To be clear I have not at any time "emptied" my deleted items folder so the files really ought to be somewhere.
any thoughts?
thanks
