how do i restore deleted files

[Drydess]

yeah how the forget do you delete a 425gb folder 'accidentially'

ya lmao, you can't exactly just misclick and open your recycle bin, right click it, and permanently delete it

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[Insert Name Here²]

I'm thinking when he was trying to select it, he may have s o m e h o w pressed "del" on his keyboard, but I don't think that deletes it permanentally. If it did, a pop up would come up asking to confirm the delete so I have no idea how this happened

[The Resonte!]

shift + del deletes it permanently from the get go but you still have to press yes to an "are you sure"

[Yosher]

pretty sure you don't just delete a 425gb folder like that, it would take a while, at least enough time to cancel the process

[SUSHI]

I'm thinking when he was trying to select it, he may have s o m e h o w pressed "del" on his keyboard, but I don't think that deletes it permanentally. If it did, a pop up would come up asking to confirm the delete so I have no idea how this happened

This theory is the most reasonable. If you try to delete large folders in windows, it wont try to recycle it and instead just prompts you asking if you want to permanently delete it.

If he redirected his steam library to another folder, it doesn't seem far fetched he might had it in a place among other things he that was trying to delete, and just wasn't paying close enough attention when it asked for confirmation.

Nonetheless, he should have had time to cancel the deletion, although I'm not positive you can under those circumstances.

OP, If you seriously did delete your steam library; my condolences and you should download and use the tool Steve linked ASAP.

[Renousim]

This theory is the most reasonable. If you try to delete large folders in windows, it wont try to recycle it and instead just prompts you asking if you want to permanently delete it.

If he redirected his steam library to another folder, it doesn't seem far fetched he might had it in a place among other things he that was trying to delete, and just wasn't paying close enough attention when it asked for confirmation.

Basically this. I went to uninstall some KSP mods and had accidentally moved my steamapps folder to another folder without realizing. When I finally figured out what I had done I tried to copy and paste it back to the original location as for some reason moving the folder itself wouldn't work as some Steam application was still open even though I checked many times to make sure there wasn't anything related to that open. After attempting to paste I realized that I didn't have enough harddrive space to fully paste it so I deleted the original folder that I had moved and then tried to paste the new one into the original spot, only to find out it wouldn't work as it had been deleted.

[Zloff]

hard disk drive or solid state drive

[Renousim]

hard disk drive or solid state drive

hard drive