(Asus laptop)
So when it comes to the Recycle Bin I'd already noticed this before, but stupidly hadn't bothered to find out what was going on since I could always "undo delete" ("just like undo/redo rename") if I accidentally deleted a file - it's always empty, and no deleted files ever end up there.
What is it on some kinda auto-delete-to-save-storage-space setting? I didn't activate any such option?
Just checked the "Storage" settings and the "Storage Sense" option was apparently activated, which by its description does include "automatically freeing up space by deleting files you don't need, incl. temporary files and the Recycle Bin contents" - but wth, I didn't turn that on?!
So now I deactivated it of course.
So yeah now somehow, apparently by falling half asleep or something, I notice there's a "permanently delete file [x]?" message on my screen - then after a few seconds (apparently due to accidentally pushing the "ok" button at the lower-right corner of the keyboard?) it just goes "yes" and deletes it, and then I think this is followed by another message that also asks whether to delete some other file, and it automatically also goes "yes";
no way I ended up selecting several files in the folder while "half asleep" and then chose the "delete" option on the drop-down menu? Very confusing situation.
And so now that file and apparently at least one other is gone, there's no way to "undo delete" them this time, and there's nothing in the Recycle Bin.
No "previous versions" of the folder available either.
(The "Backup using File History" option in the Settings is not activated, and upon clicking "+" on "add drive" it says "no available drives found".)
So anything I could do to undo these deletions?
Could those files be there but "hidden" in some way? Either in Recycle Bin, or the original folder, or some other place?
For what it's worth, it was a .pro file, i.e. a DirectMusic Producer project - which was in fact open via DirectMusic Producer when those deletions took place, and still is.
After I just clicked on "save the project", another [project].pro file appeared in the folder, as expected - however I'm still a bit confused by this situation and not sure if some data may have been lost with the deletion of the previous [project].pro file;
or how a file opened by an app even could've been deleted at all? Usually it prevents you from doing anything to files that are open somewhere?
This software is old, and by all reports kinda buggy, but I'm not sure that accounts for what occurred here?
Also I'm not exactly sure which / how many other files got deleted during that incident, since it all flew by so fast.
So even though I seem to have a sufficient backup of this folder somewhere else, it'd be cool to find a way to see which files were deleted, and kinda understand what happened here at all lol
So when it comes to the Recycle Bin I'd already noticed this before, but stupidly hadn't bothered to find out what was going on since I could always "undo delete" ("just like undo/redo rename") if I accidentally deleted a file - it's always empty, and no deleted files ever end up there.
What is it on some kinda auto-delete-to-save-storage-space setting? I didn't activate any such option?
Just checked the "Storage" settings and the "Storage Sense" option was apparently activated, which by its description does include "automatically freeing up space by deleting files you don't need, incl. temporary files and the Recycle Bin contents" - but wth, I didn't turn that on?!
So now I deactivated it of course.
So yeah now somehow, apparently by falling half asleep or something, I notice there's a "permanently delete file [x]?" message on my screen - then after a few seconds (apparently due to accidentally pushing the "ok" button at the lower-right corner of the keyboard?) it just goes "yes" and deletes it, and then I think this is followed by another message that also asks whether to delete some other file, and it automatically also goes "yes";
no way I ended up selecting several files in the folder while "half asleep" and then chose the "delete" option on the drop-down menu? Very confusing situation.
And so now that file and apparently at least one other is gone, there's no way to "undo delete" them this time, and there's nothing in the Recycle Bin.
No "previous versions" of the folder available either.
(The "Backup using File History" option in the Settings is not activated, and upon clicking "+" on "add drive" it says "no available drives found".)
So anything I could do to undo these deletions?
Could those files be there but "hidden" in some way? Either in Recycle Bin, or the original folder, or some other place?
For what it's worth, it was a .pro file, i.e. a DirectMusic Producer project - which was in fact open via DirectMusic Producer when those deletions took place, and still is.
After I just clicked on "save the project", another [project].pro file appeared in the folder, as expected - however I'm still a bit confused by this situation and not sure if some data may have been lost with the deletion of the previous [project].pro file;
or how a file opened by an app even could've been deleted at all? Usually it prevents you from doing anything to files that are open somewhere?
This software is old, and by all reports kinda buggy, but I'm not sure that accounts for what occurred here?
Also I'm not exactly sure which / how many other files got deleted during that incident, since it all flew by so fast.
So even though I seem to have a sufficient backup of this folder somewhere else, it'd be cool to find a way to see which files were deleted, and kinda understand what happened here at all lol
