Recover overwritten data?

[etiolate]

i have a 500gb external that i use for backups, and music. i was doin a backup the other day, and overwrote the music directory on my external. will this software recover that, and whats the best method for doing so?

[GDH]

Hi,

What exactly do you mean when you say you "overwrote a music directory"? What exactly did you do?

[etiolate]

I was doing a backup of my internals, and copied a directory named "music" to my external that already had a directory by that name.

[GDH]

Try a "Complete File Search". First try searching for onlye 1 or 2 file types at a time, as music files can be slow to recover. In the results screen, look both in File View and Folder View for your files.

[etiolate]

excellent, im running that now. this looks like it may take a few days to finish, but it is finding them thanks. will it rebuild the directories after the search is complete? as of right now theyre just in the Lost Files directory.

[GDH]

Because of how the files were lost you may not get the original file names back. If not, you can try 123renamer.com to rename the files.

[etiolate]

is there a way to stop this, and restart it later from where it left off. im using a friends computer and he's gonna need this back tonight. and, after 35 hours it looks to be about half way done.

[GDH]

If you are running a Complete File Search, note down the location that the search is up to in the progress window, i.e. xxxxxxxxx of xxxxxxxxxxx.

Stop the search, save the files.

Before you start the search again, click on the OPTIONS button and in the ADVANCED tab put a tick in the box for "prompt for start cluster". Then when you start the search you can enter the starting location.

[etiolate]

incredible support for this product. i cant thank you enough.

[etiolate]

i restarted the search as you instructed, and it doesn't seem to be finding anything else. is it possible that it already recovered all the files before i stopped it?