synctoy just deleted most of my files
I obviously made the wrong choice when telling the synctoy to synchronize my files. I had just a few files on my laptop but on my network home directory I had the most up to date files. So now they are all gone from my home directory. Is there a way to get them back without going through the server backup restore process?
July 29th, 2010 6:16pm

Hi, In current situation, System Restore is the best option. Best Regards Dale Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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August 2nd, 2010 7:48am

How is System Restore going to restore deleted files? It doesn't do that. The OP's options are to download an un-delete program or restore from backup. Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ On 8/2/2010 12:48 AM, Dale Qiao [MSFT] wrote: Hi, In current situation, System Restore is the best option. Best Regards Dale Regards, Hank Arnold (MVP - DS)
August 2nd, 2010 12:14pm

Ok, that isn't a problem since I back up every night. I was thinking there must be a way to recover those files. So my question about synctoy is 'how do you keep those files from being deleted?' I haven't synchronized my laptop with synctoy since. I don't want to loose the files again. I DO want the files on my laptop but something on my laptop is causing the files on my network drive to be deleted. Does a person just rename the local folder and setup synctoy again to copy the files over?
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August 4th, 2010 4:53am

I'd study the synctoy options carefully. Synchronize is a two-edged sword, and cuts bot ways (literlly). If you sync initially and both folders end up with the same contents (as designed) everything is fine. But if you delete them from either folder, the designed action is to delete them from the other. This is likely to occur if you decide you need more room on your laptop, so you delete the files, and at next sync it WILL delete them from the other folder. Unless you've turned off the recycle bin and/or configured synctoy to delete immediately (as opposed to moving changes to the recycle bin), the files should be on both machines in the recycle bin. Years ago i thought I'd be that super-mean-super-lean computer operator who KNEW when I wanted something deleted, I didn't want to be asked, and I didn't want it copied off to a bin and still using disk space. So, every now and then I'd have to restore files from an image because I was too "smart" to leave the recycle bin enabled. Eventually, I figured out that bin is easier than all of the other hoops I made myself jump through just to get a silly file back... DAS
August 4th, 2010 4:26pm

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