Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Aren't there effective file undelete programs for MS-Windows?  There
>> certainly were for MS-DOS's FAT file system.
>>   
> 
> I don't know about effective, but there are NTFS undelete utilities. It
> was easier in the MS-DOS days, because there was only ever one process
> running that could touch the filesystem. But with a modern OS, even if
> you realise your mistake immediately there will be several background
> processes that might reuse the freed disk-space quicker than you can
> type undelete.

I downloaded nfsundelete.iso after my little accident. From this you can
burn a bootable cd that can be used for trying to get files back.