need help to recover lost flexipro 11 folder files on my desktop

[easystar]

I made a cardinal mistake by allowing a software company scan my win 7 system and in the process, lost a desktop folder with all my
customer designs files for 2025. I have tried to recover using wondershare recoverit and recuva software with disappointing results and confess
I don't know anything about the recovery of missing or lost files and folders. I am looking for any advice from anyone who has gone through
what I am experiencing and what worked for you to recover flexipro files.

 

[ddarlak]

Dumb question but did you check your waste basket?

 

[Attila Nagy]

If you have installed those softwares to the same computer or used it since, probably overwrited the area where your deleted files located. recovery softwares are work the same way. Best option to move the hard drive to an other computer with recovery softwares installed to it, and recover files to there. It is possible too late now.

 

[Krissy Louderback]

I had a situation about 7 years ago where my hard drive crashed with all of my files, quickbooks, basically my entire life. I brought my hard drive to a company that specialized in data retrieval. They miraculously were able to retrieve about 99% of the info, and therefore saved my sanity. My suggestion would be to hire a pro, it was worth every dime. After that I had my local IT guy set me up a Synology network/backup so I would never run in to that problem again.

 

[netsol]

first, every time you use a piece of cheap software to try to recover you make it less likely that anything will be recovered.
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recovery with a real data recovery company is not incredibly cheap, you will probably end up spending $750- $1000
(remember they have probably a $500,000-$1000000 investment in specialize equipment

regarding backup, you can get by with the cheapest, going forward. crashplan for instance

you do want offsite cloud backup so thre is a better chance of protection from ransomware

 

[Bobby H]

Hindsight is 20/20 vision, but going forward it's best not to store work files in a computer's Desktop folder. The same goes for the "My Documents" folder. If something happens that trashes the operating system anything in those folders could be lost.

It's far better to have work files stored in a second physical disc drive separate from the computer's boot drive. It's easy to add a second hard disc to a traditional desktop tower. Some notebook computers may have an extra drive bay for an additional NVMe solid state drive. Aside from that, everyone should have external hard discs for backup purposes. Malware attacks happen. So do hardware failures.

I think cloud storage is good for commonly used files. But it can't be the only place where the file is saved. For instance I see so many Adobe Illustrator users get burned by saving projects only in an Adobe cloud location (such discussion threads are common in the Adobe Community forums). If the Internet connection flakes out at all while a file is being saved that file may end up being corrupted and lost. I prefer working on a project via local discs and then uploading a copy to the cloud later.

Cloud storage can get expensive depending on the amount of data being uploaded. External hard drives are relatively cheap for backing up terabytes worth of data. They can be taken off site to have handy in the rare event the workplace gets hits by a tornado or burned down.

 

[mfatty500]

Did you check your temp files folder?

 

[netsol]

Hindsight is 20/20 vision, but going forward it's best not to store work files in a computer's Desktop folder. The same goes for the "My Documents" folder. If something happens that trashes the operating system anything in those folders could be lost.

It's far better to have work files stored in a second physical disc drive separate from the computer's boot drive. It's easy to add a second hard disc to a traditional desktop tower. Some notebook computers may have an extra drive bay for an additional NVMe solid state drive. Aside from that, everyone should have external hard discs for backup purposes. Malware attacks happen. So do hardware failures.

I think cloud storage is good for commonly used files. But it can't be the only place where the file is saved. For instance I see so many Adobe Illustrator users get burned by saving projects only in an Adobe cloud location (such discussion threads are common in the Adobe Community forums). If the Internet connection flakes out at all while a file is being saved that file may end up being corrupted and lost. I prefer working on a project via local discs and then uploading a copy to the cloud later.

Cloud storage can get expensive depending on the amount of data being uploaded. External hard drives are relatively cheap for backing up terabytes worth of data. They can be taken off site to have handy in the rare event the workplace gets hits by a tornado or burned down.

you make a good point
$20 gets you a copy of "second copy 9" which will allow you to copy an unlimited num ber of LOCATIONS (folders, drives, etc) to a backup locaton
you can copy daily, weekly, (every 10 minutes)

anything that exists in 2 or more places is fairly safe

 

[DChorbowski]

Did you try searching your c:/ for *.fs*?

 

[netsol]

Did you try searching your c:/ for *.fs*?

if he searches he might find a couple in "recents"

 

[iSign]

not likely to be of much help, if any, but I do know my version of flexi saves files I have printed in an area that eventually needs purging (based on your computer storage capacity), so while of no help to other "design files" at least if their is stuff you have printed that was lost, you might at least have some files there

 

[yetti320]

suggestion keep your program files on the c drive. Keep your job files on a second hard drive. You can always re-install programs which can be a real pain. However your job files, quick book back-ups, artwork, documents etc cannot be replaced. Also Carbonite or similar back-up is recommended.

 

[easystar]

Just want to thank everyone who commented on my post. I appreciate all the good advice and time you took to help me!!