Author Topic: Reviving Lost/Deleted Chat Logs - Possible?  (Read 1495 times)

Ultimate15

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Reviving Lost/Deleted Chat Logs - Possible?
« on: September 07, 2015, 03:02:34 AM »
Hello!

So I have no idea if I am posting a question like this in the proper/correct thread, so please feel free to move this if necessary...but I totally deleted my COH installer on my computer, and it looks like I lost a huge chunk of my previous chat logs along with it. And I definitely didn't have a back-up system/program installed to save any files that could have been trashed since then.

Am I 'screwed'? Should I start mourning the forever loss of my chat logs now? DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY TISSUES?!?!

Thanks :)
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chuckv3

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Re: Reviving Lost/Deleted Chat Logs - Possible?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 04:32:12 PM »
They are probably gone, but you can find out for sure by searching for the file name pattern(s) on your hard drives.

If they were deleted very recently, and you haven't done too much else on the computer, you can try one of the "lost data recovery" programs out there. Best to put the drive into a toaster, or mount it as a secondary drive in another computer so that the installation of the recovery program doesn't do any further over-writing of sectors marked as reusable.