recycle bin

[billb]

if a user has deleted files on a windows 2000 server does it go to any sort of recycle bin?? ( files deleted from client pc attached to the server but files were actually on the server). is there any other way of retrieving them bar the previous nights backup?

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[Bonce]

No, the recycle bin only works for files deleted in a certain way on the local machine. Deleting from network shares is permanent so you will have to use an unerase utility or backup.

[outlaw]

Bonce said:

No, the recycle bin only works for files deleted in a certain way on the local machine. Deleting from network shares is permanent so you will have to use an unerase utility or backup.

no it not deleting nothing is perminent.

all it dose is remove the pointer to the file on the disk.

the file is still there to its wrote over.

best write random garbarge over the file several timesif you realy want it to disapear.

[Bonce]

And what does that have to do with the original question?

[JonRB]

Bonce is completely correct. You only get the dubious safety net* of the Recycle Bin on local drives.

I can see where you are coming from - you're hoping that a message would be sent to the server which would 'delete' the file by moving it to its own Recycle Bin. Unfortunately this is not how it works (well, certainly not on NT or Win2K servers anyway. Not sure about XP and/or Active Directory).

The only option is for yourself or your SysAdmin to run an undelete program on the server to try to recover it. Do it soon though as the longer you leave it the higher the probabability that the area of the hard disc that contains the file will be overwritten and the data lost.

(* I refer to the Recycle Bin as a 'dubious safety net' because Sod's Law dictates that whenever you accidentally delete a file and go to the Recycle Bin to recover it, the bloody thing isn't in there, just a load of junk that you deleted because you really did want to delete it. )

>> Edited by JonRB on Friday 21st November 09:21