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Is there any way to recover lost files?

hukehulkbhukehulkb Posts: 0
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I formatted the disk where I had all my daz projects, is there any way to access them through my daz account or something? I mean like a backup that is done automatically or some kind of record.
Or in case I can't, do you know if there is any way to recreate a model using a photo or something? 

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  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 6,926

    Have you ever made any backup of your DAZ scene files ?

    If you haven't... and no file has been written to the disk that you formatted, you still have chance to recover them by using some recovery software. I use EaseUS Data Recovery...

     

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 254

    If you mean that you have lost DAZ assets you bought (characters, clothing, environments, etc.), you can log in to DAZ3D, access your account and download your purchases any time you wish.  If you mean that you have formatted a disc on which you stored your DAZ Studio scene files, they are lost forever. Formatting erases everything and there are no files to recover. 

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 6,926

    contedesfees said:

    If you mean that you have lost DAZ assets you bought (characters, clothing, environments, etc.), you can log in to DAZ3D, access your account and download your purchases any time you wish.  If you mean that you have formatted a disc on which you stored your DAZ Studio scene files, they are lost forever. Formatting erases everything and there are no files to recover. 

    Nah... 'formatted' really doesn't mean you lost the files forever, while they're still in partition(s) of the formatted disk. I've recovered 100% of them for times...

    https://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    In the past 35+ years with computers, I have once formatted the wrong 1TB disk that was 90% full at the time. Got about 90% of stuff back with a recovery tool.

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 254
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    In my experience, formatting erases every file. If you've partitioned a disc, formatting the disc will respect the partition; files in the partition are not erased. Access the partition and format it and they will be.

     

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  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 6,926

    contedesfees said:

    In my experience, formatting erases every file. If you've partitioned a disc, formatting the disc will respect the partition; files in the partition are not erased. Access the partition and format it and they will be.

     

    Whatever you format, no worry ~~ Just DO NOT write anything to the formatted disk before recovery.

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    contedesfees said:

    In my experience, formatting erases every file. If you've partitioned a disc, formatting the disc will respect the partition; files in the partition are not erased. Access the partition and format it and they will be.

    Usually one makes a quick format, which only deletes the file index, ie. the map for the location of the files and their names.

    If one hasn't written anything on the disk after performing the format, no files are actually deleted, they are all still there, one just needs a tool to find them.
    One problem with the recovery tools is that the tool also sees the files one had deleted way back when, which cannot be recovered, so one will end up with lot more files than there were before the format, some working and others not.

    When performing the recovery, one should always have an empty disk, twice the size of the one being recovered and the files recovered should be written on that empty disk, never on the disk being recovered.

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