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Recover Deleted Text File

Posted by micki on 2012-08-20

Recover Deleted Text File

What You Can Do After Read The Article

After you have finished reading the article, you can easily recover your deleted text files, even you have empited them from the Recycle Bin. The article is a little long, so please keep your patience to read it throughly.

Before Recover Deleted Text File

In the computer world, a text file is called plain text, it is the contents of ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing. it often opposed to formatted text such as word document, html document and so on. Text file is not same as binary files too, some contents of a binary file must be interpreted as binary objects such as image, real numbers, encoded integers, etc.

Text files are simple, so they are commonly used for storage of information, it avoid some of the problems encountered with other file formats, such as endianness, padding bytes, or differences in the number of bytes in a machine word. Further, when data corruption occurs in a text file, it is often easier to recover and continue processing the remaining contents. A disadvantage of text files is that they usually have a low entropy, meaning that the information occupies more storage than is strictly necessary. A simple text file needs no additional metadata to assist the reader in interpretation, and therefore may contain no data at all, which is a case of zero byte file.

Ok, after learn some knowledge, let us beginning our topic, to recover deleted text file.

Recover Deleted Text File From The Recycle Bin Of Windows

If we just deleted some text files by Windows Explorer and we want to recover these deleted text files, then we are fortunate, because our deleted text files are still existing fully in our computer. So, please follow below steps to begin to recover our deleted text files.
1) Find the icon of the Recycle Bin on desktop of Windows, and open it by click on the icon.
2) Search these deleted text files in the Recycle Bin of Windows.
3) After we find these deleted text file, we just need to right-click on these deleted text files to pop up system menu and click 'Restore' menu item, we can undeleted these text files, and these text files will located in the place where it original located.

Recover Deleted Text File After We Emptied The Recycle Bin

If we deleted some text files and next we had emptied the Recycle Bin, then we are unfortunate. But don't worry about it, because we still have a chance to recover these deleted text files. In fact, after we delete some text files from the computer and empty them from the Recycle Bin, it's data still exist in the hard disk of our computer. When we empty these text files from the Recycle Bin or delete these text files by third-part software, Windows just marks it for deletion and removes the file name of these deleted text files from the file system database, and the space occpied by these text files is listed as available space for saving new files. So until some new files are written to the part of the hard disk partition where that these text files located, they are still there and we still have the chance recover them. But Windows do not offer this software utility to do the thing, so we must find a third-part software to do the thing.

After overall testing, We have found File Recovery Assist is an excellent file recovery software, it can help us to recover our deleted text files easily. Ok, we can read follows to learn how to recover our deleted text files.

First, download File Recovery Assist from here, and follow the wizard of installation to install it.

Second,select a disk partition where the deleted text file located and click 'Next' button, the software will scan the disk partition to find any deleted files and list these deleted files.
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Finally, after the sofware list deleted files, we can find these deleted text file which we want to recover in the deleted files list. We can double these deleted text files to preview them and click 'NEXT' button to recover these deleted text files to the folder which we have set.

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As metioned above, all things are click 'NEXT' button, we can easily recover our deleted text file, even after we emptied the Recycle Bin. So we should free download it to try.

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