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where is deleted information?

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by chrism305

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I have win 98 clients on an NT 4 sp6a network. File server is a shared partition. If a client deletes a file does it go into a recycle bin on the server or client or is it just gone? I need to recover serveral files if possible but I don't know where to look.

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by thechas

If I understand the structure correctly, any files on the server that a client deletes are gone.

You have 2 options;
1. restore the file from a backup.
2. use a file recovery utility on the server drive.

As I understand it, the recycle binis only used if files are deleted from the GUI on the PC that the drive is installed on.
Local files that your W98 clients delete will be in their recycle bins.
Likewise, if you delete a file from the server itself, it will be in the servers recycle bin.

Chas

by sphynx

No luck you cannot recover it on the recycle bin on the server since deletion did not happen on the server side.

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