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On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> No. The 7z files can be be recovered, but not by any ol' utility. I need to
> find one that can "see" such a file in order to recover it. For example,
> one named "Recover Files" can't detect such an extension. And the threads
> I've been reading on Google state that Recuva won't work, either.
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
>
> > So you mean that the 7zip file manager deletes files in a way that cannot
> > be recovered? That sounds dangerous.
> >
> > -Tony
> >
> > On Tuesday, 1 December 2015, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry... not so. Many recovery utilities cannot undelete a 7z file. This
> >> is
> >> why I'm asking if anyone specifically knows of one that does recover
> such
> >> files.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm not sure I understand the problem. You're looking to recover a
> file
> >> > that you deleted without meaning to. A file recovery utility (and
> there
> >> are
> >> > lots out there, Recuva just happened to be the first Google result)
> >> should
> >> > recover ANY file type. It won't open it, but it will undelete it so
> that
> >> > you can open it in whatever your archive utility is.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Windows 8.1 NTFS
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Robert Lauriston <
> robert -at- lauriston -dot- com
> >> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Which operating system and version and which file system?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Chris Morton <
> salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> > > Do you know of a sure-fire way to unerase a 7z file?
> >>
> >
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