Spring cleaning my laptop. Moved my music etc to external hdd. Somehow I deleted all music. Ease of USE data recovery charging $65 for license. No previous version to restore. When I scan with Ease I can see my files. Someone help?

I'm onit

@irene thanx will update

If there is no backup the data wasn’t meant to be recovered.

@lastNick 🙈🙈

@lastNick 🙈🙈 I was in the process of making one.

On Linux there's a tool called testdisk or something similar that fully recovered deleted files, so long as they hadn't been overwritten. Last I checked it was free to use.

As suggested by @irene Recuva will do the job.
If it doesn't you can use DiskDigger too.

Don't write to a drive you want to recover deleted files from, or the new stuff might be written over the old stuff. That includes installing the data recovery software itself!

@irene I came to suggest that 👏

Thanx devs. I'll try all your solutions. I loved that collection

What operating system? Regardless, scan the drive for integrity. If there's a lot of bad sectors, it's likely hosed.

@darknight Then something about the order of your backup procedure is wrong.

@irene I'm in the process of trying out recuva. I owe you the first shout if things work out.

@irene So I used recuva but it wasn't pro version so it didn't work much. Got 66 songs out of 12000 approx. Tried disk digger with a license got around 200 to 300. So I'm going to use all tools and see what I can salvage. Lesson learnt, always backup the backup

@lastNick I guess so. Any suggestions 😕

What recuva didn't manage to recover, I recovered with "restoration". Try it out.

@irene I think now I will. It's a slow process but I have no option

@telephantasm Let me check it out. I'll give you feedback

@irene 12000 songs, he said.

@darknight My suggestion: music streaming subscription

@telephantasm Restoration did the trick. I'm recovering folder by folder but works like a charm.

Restoration is the best free recovery software. I tried Recuva, DiskDigger and Restoration. Restoration worked like a charm. I'd advise anyone who deletes files to not do anything else with storage media. Using another computer, download restoration software then recover the files copying them onto the computer to avoid overwriting files yet to be recovered. I recovered using this method and got everything back. I thank you.

@irene I wanted to create space on my laptop. I moved my entire music collection to an external hard drive then added the music collection on the external HD folder under my laptop music library. The effect is as long as my HD is connected, when I go to my music folder on my laptop it shows all my music as normal. Once that was done I had to delete all the music from my laptop. Somehow i mixed up my HDs and when I deleted my laptop music folder, I also deleted the folder on the HD. I only noticed a few seconds later that I had deleted the music in both locations. Silly me🐒

@irene Yep everything was safe and secure.