Get Help From Your Recycle Bin
Sometimes data recovery may be as simple as checking your Recycle bin for the records you lost. Most times we press the delete button without thinking about how it affects our work flow. Of course you don’t need to, because why should you worry about something you don’t need. After all, would you go rummaging through your local garbage dump to bring back items you had previously thrown out. The answer is “yes” if you later find out the item is worth more to you that you first thought.
Similarly, deleting information from your hard drives can later come back to haunt you if you are not careful. For example, sometimes I am working on a document that involves several sections that I have to cut and paste so the article I am writing can make sense. After I cut and paste a particular excerpt to another part of the document, I would minimize the screen from the first document so I could continue working on the current one.
A little later I might decide to take a break or might need access to another file for another project. I would then begin to close some of the documents I am not using. Normally a warning appears if I am trying to close a document not yet saved. But in my haste to move on I may neglect to save the documents I am closing. Later I find out that I lost some precious research.
What do I do?
After thinking the matter through, I go to the Recycle bin and restore the file to its pristine nature.
Alas, Saved by the Gods of Recycle.