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Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:03:20 +0800
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Aren't there effective file undelete programs for MS-Windows?  There
certainly were for MS-DOS's FAT file system.

I don't know about effective, but there are NTFS undelete utilities. It was easier in the MS-DOS days, because there was only ever one process running that could touch the filesystem. But with a modern OS, even if you realise your mistake immediately there will be several background processes that might reuse the freed disk-space quicker than you can type undelete.






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