User's Manual

File recovery and Destruction
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Don’t worry if the first letter of the file name is missing for the files on FAT
drives, Windows always deletes the first letter when deleting files on drives with
this file system.
Recovering Files
If you find a file that you wish to recover in the list, click it to select it. You can
select more than one file by holding the Ctrl key while clicking. Then click
Restore, and the program will attempt to return the file to the normal Windows
environment.
Once the files have been recovered, try to open them in the corresponding
program. If the file can be opened, the recovery was successful. If not, then part
of the file was already overwritten by another file. And that can often happen
sooner than you think.
Data Recovery 101
As deleted files have a rather short life expectancy under Windows, especially on
the system drive where the paging file and many temporary files are located, you
should normally attempt to recover an accidentally deleted file with TuneUp
Undelete right away. The sooner you try, the better the chances that you will be
able to recover the file.
Please do not install software for the recovery of deleted files on your computer
when you have already deleted the file! When you install the software, you may
overwrite the lost file forever. Even if you install the software on a different
drive, temporary installation files may be written over the files you are trying to
recover.
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