From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:22:04 +0200 Message-ID: <48B9ABEC.9010305@gmail.com> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> <87wshzpszz.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48B87A2D.3050406@emf.net> <8763pjqjrt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080830094003.GA2698@muc.de> <48B96138.30506@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220127764 10465 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 20:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Emacs Devel To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 22:23:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZWyi-00050x-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:23:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZWxj-0004GZ-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZWxe-0004G0-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZWxd-0004Fc-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38036 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZWxd-0004FZ-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:59557) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZWxY-0004H5-Vb; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:62061 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KZWxX-0007J6-3p; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:22:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48B96138.30506@gnu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080830-0, 2008-08-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KZWxX-0007J6-3p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KZWxX-0007J6-3p 399eb4ca2875d1a2097350c2ee76dccf X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103274 Archived-At: 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.