Recovering cleared/deleted files

[Bixby]

Argh.

I was working too fast and accidentally selected some regions in the audio list and deleted them via the clear selected files command. Then I realized I didn't want to delete them. I haven't changed anything sense. Is there anyway to recover the files, or are they gone? Oh, and I don't have the auto-backup enabled, so no reverting...

Thanks.

PTLE 6.4

[IntelDoc]

Did you just CLEAR them, or DELETE them?

If cleared, you should be able to import them into the list again. If deleted, they are gone.

- Doc

[Bixby]

Deleted, unfortunately.

Was hoping maybe they were still in a cache or something, since I haven't shut the program down or changed anything since. But it sounds like I'm SOL.

Thanks.

[RUNRUN]

If it's really important you can use GetDataBack, it's a very effective file recovery program.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Try PC Inspector File Recovery

Good luck.

..and backup your data in the future.

Rail

[Bixby]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Luckily, I was fairly easily able to get it re-recorded.

I did go enable auto backups in PT.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Auto-backups won't help if you delete the audio files.

You should have a backup regimen which means every night you make a safety copy of you session to another location.

Rail

[Bixby]

Auto backups won't help? It's set to backup every five minutes and keep the last 10. Hypothetically, couldn't I just revert to the one five minutes ago?

I do use a backup scheme - I do an automatic backup to another drive every four hours. Used to just backup nightly, but got burned once by a drive failure.

Since my recording and deleting all happened within about 45 minutes, even the four hour backup wouldn't have saved me. But I'm thinking the autobackup would've stood a chance? Please correct me if my logic is wrong!

Thanks again.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Auto-Backup just saves the session file.. it couldn't make safety copies of all new audio every x minutes... it would slow the program down. If you delete the audio files.. they're gone unless you can recover them with a recovery tool.

Rail

[Kirby B.]

Try PC Inspector File Recovery

Good luck.

..and backup your data in the future.

Rail

Just a quick thank you to Rail for this. Have used this program and it's really great!