Keeping files in name specific folders is a good practice to manage different type of files on any storage device. For example, if you have saved your college pictures in a folder named as ‘College Photos’, you will not need to give your precious time in searching for your college time images on your system hard drive or in any removable storage device. However, keeping files in folders with specific name doesn’t provide any security to your important information from various unexpected data loss crisis.
Sometimes, users get their files deleted from specific folders and couldn’t find them in Recycle Bin or anywhere on hard drive. In such circumstances, it is advisable to employ any professional file recovery program to retrieve deleted files from a specific folder under following conditions:
- Use of Shift Delete keys to delete any files inside specific folder
- Deleting files using command prompt on Windows computer
- Accidental erasure of files from any specific folder after wrong selection
- Viruses can also delete files from any selected folder deliberately on Windows system
- Emptying Recycle Bin soon after any file or folder is deleted
- Files may get erased from any folder due to third party software malfunction
File recovery tool:
Yodot File Recovery is an excellent package to recover deleted files from any specific folders on hard drive of a Windows PC. It uses auto-scanning mechanism to search and restore files that are missing or erased from particular folder. You use this software to undelete files after shift delete from hard drive, USB drives, flash memory cards, external hard disks, SSDs and from other removable storage devices. It is very efficient file recovery tool for restoring MS Office documents, archive files, PDF files, e-books and other documents on PC working with different Windows OS like Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008. You can employ this utility to recover your precious files from user library’s folders such as Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, Downloads, etc. on Windows computer or laptop. This efficient application even allow you to recover deleted files from desktop, thus makes restoration process faster and easier.
Follow these instructions to use file retrieval software easily!
- Download Deleted file recovery software to your Windows computer and execute the setup to install this software
- Click on shortcut icon on desktop to run software and wait till main screen comes up
- In the main wizard, you get two different options which are “Deleted File Recovery” and “Lost File Recovery”
- Since you have to retrieve deleted files from specific folder, click on “Deleted File Recovery” option
- This file recovery program now scans your computer hard drive and displays all the drives
- Choose the drive from where you have deleted files
- Now software rescans the selected drive and shows all recoverable files on that drive
- Mark the file types you want to undelete or click on “Skip” option to choose all files by default
- Now software displays list of restored files in two different view options i.e. “Data Type” and “File Type”
- Select files from list of rescued files which you need back
- Finally you have to browse for the destination location on your computer hard drive to save restored files
Points to Remember!
- When you realize that files have been deleted from specific folder, don’t save any data to specific drive
- Before you delete any file with Shift + Delete keys, make sure target file is not valuable anymore
- Install an advanced anti-virus program to keep your valuable data protected from viruses or external threats
- Check the Recycle Bin for important files/folders before you empty it
