recovery of folder structure

[maureen]

Good news! I recovered 11,000 files. Bad news - the files do not have their original names or folder structures. How can I get the filenames and folder structure back? I can't go through 11,000 files. Please help me.

[GDH]

Some quick questions....

What type of files are they?

How were they deleted/lost?

From what type of media were the deleted or lost?

What type of search did you run to find them?

Thank you.

[maureen]

Hi,

Files are *.doc, *.xls, *.pdf

They were deleted when a profile was accidentaly deleted. Files were in My Documents folder.

They were on the c: drive.

I ran the Complete File Search.

Please help me.

Maureen

[GDH]

You have run the right type of search. If you dont get the file names back (check both file and folder view of the Recover My Files search results screen) then unfortunately they have been destroyed.

The file and folder names are stored in a separate place on the hard disk to the actual file data. One can be destroyed by not the other.

You can use "Mass Renamer", avaialble at http://www.getdata.com/download.php to rename the Word and Excel files. You may also like to try Explorer View from www.explorerview.com - use Explorer View and the F2 key in Windows Explorer to rename the files.

I hope this helps.