Recover Deleted Files

Greetings,

I recently managed to delete a few movie files ending .mov, and I wondered if there are any handy programs to use to recover those? Only found programs which scans the whole harddrive, but that takes about 17 hours.

I know the exact names of the file, which was deleted by an accident.
What´s the best way to recover these, after they left the trash bin?

Not sure if this is the right section to post this, but I´ll give it a shot.

Yours,
Marius

When you delete a file, what you delete are the pointers which tell any software where the files are located. There is no longer any way to know where on the drive they were. You'll have to scan the entire drive,

edit: or at least all the free space if the drive hasn't been used since deleting these files.

bobtomay said:

When you delete a file, what you delete are the pointers which tell any software where the files are located. There is no longer any way to know where on the drive they were. You'll have to scan the entire drive.

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Thank you for your answer. I just know that a deleted file is recoverable until it´s replaced by a new file. Therefore I try to not use the computer, until I find some software to run.