recover deleted files

Hemant_india · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 27

hi
i need to recover some of my files
deleted accidantly.
how can i recover through vb?
please help
--
hemu

Archived from group: microsoft>public>vb>syntax

Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1672

"Hemant_india" wrote in message @microsoft.com...

> i need to recover some of my files
> deleted accidantly.
> how can i recover through vb?

Don't try. VB is not the proper language for getting that close to the OS.

Hemant_india · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 27

then what is the alternative?
--
hemu

"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" wrote:

>
> "Hemant_india" wrote in message
> @microsoft.com...
>
> > i need to recover some of my files
> > deleted accidantly.
> > how can i recover through vb?
>
> Don't try. VB is not the proper language for getting that close to the OS.
>
>
>

Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 1672

"Hemant_india" wrote in message @microsoft.com...

> then what is the alternative?

An undelete utility. You should be able to find a free one. Google is your
friend.

A_Republican · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 4

C++ would be the alternative language in my opinion.

But Jeff Johnson is right, google for a free undelete program. That would be
the best route to go.
--
Regards,
Shaun Goldston

Liberalism is treason!
Vote Republican

"Hemant_india" wrote:

> then what is the alternative?
> --
> hemu
>
>
> "Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" wrote:
>
> >
> > "Hemant_india" wrote in message
> > @microsoft.com...
> >
> > > i need to recover some of my files
> > > deleted accidantly.
> > > how can i recover through vb?
> >
> > Don't try. VB is not the proper language for getting that close to the OS.
> >
> >
> >

Where are these files? Hi, I recently face a virus infection and as a result I have lost these files because my cd of visual studio 6.0 is broken. I have retrieved all other files by extracting them from a backup and searching over the internet, but no luck for these two files

Monitoring for files Hi, Does anyone know of a method using File System Objects to monitor for filenames that are date & time stamped. The filename will always follow the form "BACS Day File [ddmmyyhhmm]" There should only ever be ONE file present in the directory - however b

copy files from one dir. to another.. Hi ... I am making a program in VB 6 in which I need to take all files from one specific user-desired folder .. and then want to save them into another folder with filenames .. like .... 01.ext ...02.ext ...03.ext .... it should take all f

FileExists and *.job files Is it possible to determine if a *.job file exists? Basically, the "Schedule Task" wizard will create a .job file. This will reside (for Windows NT) in the folder The visual Basic method "FileExists" always returns false when atte

Rename files using wildcards... I can believe how troublesome this is! I need to rename a number of files in a directory. eg file1.exz > file1.exe file2.exz > file2exe file3.exz > file3.exe file4.exz > file4.exe the NAME function in VB does not cater for NAME "*.exz" as "*.exe" Would so