I've been working on a project for the last 2 months. It's a research project that involves a lot of field visits and a bunch of writings. The report due in a few days. I've spent hours of tiring nights working on the final report and using a lot of scratch notes stored all over my flashdisk.
After a few months working on and on with my flashdisk, I usually do a little maintenance, reorganizing my files, erasing unused or double files. I rely on my flashdisk heavily now since it is as fast as working with your hard drive, and as secure as a CD... so why bother restoring the files into my hardisk? But as we all know, accidents happen... As I experienced this morning...
Unintentionally, I deleted the whole folder of the project. All of them!!! Hard to believe how my fingers have done that. No warning what so ever from the system that preventing me from accidently erasing those files. Or I have just ignored it, only God knows.
Well, so be it, the files gone. I sat in front of my computer, frustrated. I think nothing and too tired to try to find something to get me out of trouble. After a few minutes, I could only think one source to help me out. Go to Google.com. Then I suddenly face the site and start typing the keywords. I started with "restore file flashdisk" (no space between flash and disk) but didn't get a good result, some are good but not really hit straight on what I needed. Then as we all know how Google has helped millions of people, I saw on top of the page "Did you mean: restore file flash disk?" Yes... I clicked it, and... boom, I got a page full of search results pointing out to numerous sites that offer utility application to restore deleted files from removable disk. Thank God...
I went to one site, it says it has a freeware, but it happens to be not. Free download, but you have to pay for $49 to be able to restore files bigger that 64 kb size, stupid limitation. Went back to the search result, I click another convincing link, yes it was a freeware, only 277 kb to download, I installed it.
In not later than 15 minutes after I crashed those files. I've been able to recover most of them. What a relief! Not a perfect application though, it still failed to recover my small PowerPoint file, but it's okay...
So the day has saved, thanks again to Google...
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