[dba-Tech] Oh God one bad keystroke!

Aha, one I think I can answer. Boot into safemode with command prompt. Go to the directory above the one you deleted (remember your dos commands?), and type dir *.* -h so you can see the hidden things. Hopefully, if I've remembered right, you'll see the little brat and you can rename it.

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Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Arthur Fuller
> Sent: 08 Sep 2005 3:59 pm
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Oh God one bad keystroke!
> 
> The wrong thing was selected and I just toasted lots and lots 
> of work. I thought I was deleting selected files and failed 
> to notice that the selector was on a directory, and Windows 
> said "Too big for recycle bin" and I said ok.
> I know that deleting a file merely changes one byte in its 
> header. How can I reveal them and get them back?
> I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm stupid. But I don't want to throw 
> away the last couple of days' productive work. 
> Help!
> TIA,
> Arthur
> 
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