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#156 Files Disappeared
Hello,
I created one "archives extract" association under the default profile. The option to "Remove source after processing it" is enabled.
https://i.imgur.com/Lp51bRA.png
When I dragged zip files to the icon, everything extracted correctly.
So I enabled Folder Monitoring and added two folders:
https://i.imgur.com/E821tP9.png
Immediately afterwards, I started getting popup prompts for every single file type in these folders and whether I wanted to make an association for it. I don't recall the options but I was clicking "cancel" or "not now" or something like that.
Anyway, there were double digit GB worth of files in these two folders as the log indicates:
2018-01-12 23:04:38 Monitored Folder: C:\Users\Goran\Desktop
2018-01-12 23:04:38 Total Size Loaded: 12.9 GB
2018-01-12 23:04:45 Process stopped: Process interrupted by the user
2018-01-12 23:04:57 Monitored Folder: C:\Users\Goran\Downloads
2018-01-12 23:05:00 Total Size Loaded: 28.5 GB
2018-01-12 23:05:04 Process stopped: Process interrupted by the user
2018-01-12 23:10:04 Monitored Folder: C:\Users\Goran\Desktop
2018-01-12 23:10:04 Total Size Loaded: 12.9 GB
2018-01-12 23:10:38 Process stopped: Process interrupted by the user
2018-01-12 23:10:40 Monitored Folder: C:\Users\Goran\Downloads
2018-01-12 23:10:44 Total Size Loaded: 27.8 GB
2018-01-12 23:10:45 Process stopped: Process interrupted by the user
2018-01-12 23:28:33 ===== DropIt Closed =====
I don't know what happened but the only thing left on my desktop are the folders that got unzipped. The zipped folders were deleted as they should have been.
The problem is that all my other files were deleted as well... Even though there were no associatians for them: Images, Application Shortcuts, Executables, etc.
I don't know if the delete job was so large that the files skipped the recycle bin or if disk cleanup cleaned out the recycle bin, what I do know is that lots of files vanished.
Dear Goran, I'm not sure of what could be the reason, we will investigate to find the issue. Unfortunately there are not standard solutions to undo the deletion, the only way to try restoring files is to use a recovery software like Piriform Recuva as soon as possible.