Backups gone
Trying to delete old backups using acronis 2018, now all of my back ups are gone. Anyway to recover?


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Another free option is RECUVA by the maker of CCleaner. Recovery of such deleted files is only possible if nothing has been overwritten to the sectors in the drive where the original files were. To increase recovery chances of deleted files, stop using the disk where the files used to live and attempt the recovery ASAP. If the old tibs aren't important and a new backup can take there place, I'd just go that route and start making a new backup ASAP.
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A few years ago I accidentally deleted directory with hundreds of subdirectories many thousands of files. Several of the free recovery products could recover most of the files but made a total mess of the directory structure. Active@ File Recovery by LSoft was able to recover the directory structure and all but a handful of files. It isn't free, but at about $30 (US) is was well worth it for me.
I didn't have an ATI backup of those files because of a major blunder. I months earlier had moved them to the wrong drive - to the destination rather than source of ATI backups.
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As far as paid products go, that is a great tool Patrick. I've used it at work in the past too.
Also, Acronis Revive has been pretty impressive too. It's not free, but the trial is definitely worth checking out to see if purchasing is warranted.
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/more/revive/
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It had not occurred to me that Acronis Revive could be a solution.
If the data is particularly important, if I had a spare HDD/SSD I would make a sector by sector backup before trying recovery.
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