undelete folder

I was told to delete the old dwgs they were all in one folder. I deleted the folder and then got told they put a dwg in there that shouldnt have been. I went to my recycle bin to get it out but the whole folder isnt there? Its like it skipped the step of being in the recycle bin and went straight to completely erased. Is there a way to get it back?

I think a system restore (assuming the folder is on your local drive) would bring the files back.

that would work if it was on my local drive unfortunatly it was on the network, any other ideas?

found an autosave that got us back about 3/4 of the way fortunately the guy who worked on it didnt delete his old autosaves. Any ideas would still be appreciated

Gotta have some network backups somewhere.

Whenever you delete something from a folder on the network it is gone for good. As ronjonp said, go back to your network backup tapes.

In the future, if you're going to delete something from a network folder, move it to your local drive first and then delete it. That way, it will go into your Recycle Bin.

I did create Recycle Bin on server and move all file to it, than use Briefcase to store it on my hard drive

good lesson for the future. fortunately the sutosave got us close enough the pulling it from the tapes would take longer. (maybe not if the IT person was in office but wont be back til monday)

I know on our system with Win 2003 server I can go to the folder or the one above it in the tree structure, right click, properties, one of the tabs is previous versions. Double click on one of those and navigate to the file(s), drag over.....

Maybe yours is the same way.

just checked it out and the only tabs i have in properties are general and customize and neither seem to have what you are talking about. Thanks for the idea though.

I did that once, fortunately it was Monday, which happened to be my excuse, and we ran a file restore from the tapes - why we still use tape these days who knows...

Another thing we do here is maintain an "Archive" folder. all previous revisions go into that folder, named accordingly to keep organized. It works good and helps speed things up when you want/have to go back to a previously designed ... item.

I have a software capable of retrieving deleted files from network.

Ouch! Backup everynight to our server, saved plenty of heartaches!

Our backup *.dwg files are also backed up to another seldom used desktop.

Just to be sure!