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by selinathe1

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when we delete file on a network drive, where does it go? does the file get permanately deleted righaway or does it stored in something like recycle bin?

one of my users accidentally deleted something in a network drive and wants it back.

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by techexec2

Assuming you are talking about Windows, when a file on a server is deleted, it does not go to the Recycle Bin. It is gone forever. To recover the file for your user, you will need to restore it from a backup. You do backup your server, don't you? :-)

Note: Early beta releases of Windows Vista suggest that this might change in Vista. You'll have to wait for the final release to know for sure.

by selinathe1

ya, i guess that's the only way then.
we do backup our servers. thanks. :)

by ctmoore1998

Unless you have 2003 servers with shadow copies enabled then you will have recover the file from your backups or use a file recovery app. File recovery app should work as long as the space used by the file hasn't been reused by file system or system hasn't been defragged.

by selinathe1

it had to be on 1 of the last 2 of 2000servers. we got it back from backup file. thanks :)

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