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Help! I am an idiot and deleted my entire pictures file!

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  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    I am very pleased to say that I used Recuva and have successfully recovered all the files. Thank you all for your support and advice and rest assured I shall not be attmepting a laptop clean up myself EVER AGAIN!
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 21 August 2010 at 5:58PM
    write them to a dvd, and use the external hard disk to disk image your machines (including photos)
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
  • Aiadi
    Aiadi Posts: 1,840 Forumite
    Bunnyinthelights wrote: »
    I am very pleased to say that I used Recuva and have successfully recovered all the files. Thank you all for your support and advice and rest assured I shall not be attmepting a laptop clean up myself EVER AGAIN!
    Just backup and backup and backup......................
    Do I want it? ......Do I need it? ......What would happen if I don't buy it??????
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Bunnyinthelights wrote: »
    I am very pleased to say that I used Recuva and have successfully recovered all the files. Thank you all for your support and advice and rest assured I shall not be attmepting a laptop clean up myself EVER AGAIN!

    Cleaning up was not the issue. Failing to back up was. If you back up now, you cannot have a problem in the future.
    Glad you got it sorted, but sooner or later your hard drive wlil fail (it's not if but when) so back up now.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
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