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Moving files - cancelled

mr2nut

My cousin (the idiot that he is) cancelled moving a few GB of his pictures to his USB stick and only half went on, but the other half simply dissapeared from his hard drive. I was hoping to use some data recovery software that I normally use (easy recovery) and tried a deleted format but it didn't show the files.

I was wondering, what exactly does Windows do when MOVING files and not just copying them? Does it **** them in a temp location whilst moving? I'm hoping they will still be kicking around..

Cheers

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Comments

dynamik

When you move a file, I'm pretty sure Windows just deletes the file after it has been copied. You shouldn't lose anything. I've done the same thing numerous times and never lost anything.

veritas_libertas

dynamik wrote: »

When you move a file, I'm pretty sure Windows just deletes the file after it has been copied. You shouldn't lose anything. I've done the same thing numerous times and never lost anything.

There is a method of holding the correct key that will automatically delete after moving the file (I'm not talking about Cut). I can't remember what is though

If he did it that way it could be toast. I can't imagine it would delete it till it was moved though.

mr2nut

Ah well. Cheers for the replies but I can't find the files anywhere. Tried all sorts of format and delete recovery Software but with no luck.