Each student in my class has a folder that they save to on our server. The student accidentally deleted a file they need for an assignment. I only want to restore her folder. Can I do this? If so, how do I do this?
Each student in my class has a folder that they save to on our server. The student accidentally deleted a file they need for an assignment. I only want to restore her folder. Can I do this? If so, how do I do this?
Assuming that Shadow Copy is enabled, log on to the server in question. (You may be able to do this from a workstation, but I don’t believe so.) From there, right-click the folder that used to contain the file (or sub-folder) and navigate to Properties. Once there you should see a tab called “Previous Versions”. I recommend using the “Copy” option, instead of restore, just to prevent the accidental overwrite of other changes.
If Shadow Copy *isn’t* enabled, I recommend using a file recovery tool. File recovery tools work by searching your hard drive for bits of data that aren’t in the file system index. Then it tries to glue those bits together based on what it thinks they are. It’s not always successful, but for office documents, pictures, and so on, it generally works. The trick it to do it before the data is over-written on the disk by the OS. (The OS assumes that’s free space now since the file was deleted.) Using file recovery tools tends to take a long time to go through your hard drive looking for bits (think hours).
If neither of those work, then I’m afraid you’re out of luck unless you have backups hidden somewhere else.