Oh no!
Like a lot of people, I often leave out small words when I'm typing - words like 'I', 'an', 'a', and etc. So, when I left out lha's x command while attempting to do a wildcard-for-the-sake-of-name-completion extract to t: (ala lha mem#? t:) what I got was all the files in my current directory moved to a single archive in my ram disk. Not knowing that lha had deleted files from my current directory I deleted the resulting archive to free up memory.
Bastards!
My current directory was on a FAT32 partition courtesy of WinUAE so I quit WinUAE and started looking for a FAT32 undelete program - preferably free and small in size. What I found was just the opposite. This is appalling - didn't MS DOS used to have an undelete command? What happened to it? (I'm using Win98 btw) I managed to find a 150ishKB program - others were approaching 10MB and this is the compressed file size! Ridiculous! - but it would only show me a list of deleted files and refuse to recover any file larger than 15KB. The wonders of trial software.
Phew!
So I had to re-download what I couldn't bear to be without. Mozilla's download window contains every file I've downloaded since switching to Mozilla so it was easy to re-find those files on Aminet. What I didn't know is that Mozilla seems to keep it's own archive of downloaded files so when I attempted to download these files for the second time it happened almost instantly.
I like Mozilla. But having gone through this I'd like to know if there are any *real* undelete programs out there. And another windows tool I'd like is one that can let me browse and search the physical memory of my pc. Any suggestions?
