Python and lost files

[lallous]

Hello Timothy,

"Timothy W. Grove" <tim_grove at sil.org> wrote in message 
news:mailman.726.1254378947.2807.python-list at python.org...
> Recently I purchased some software to recover some files which I had lost. 
> (A python project, incidentally! Yes, I should have kept better backups!) 
> They were nowhere to found in the file system, nor in the recycle bin, but 
> this software was able to locate them and restore them. I was just 
> wondering if there was a way using python to view and recover files from 
> the hard drive which would otherwise remain lost forever?
>

To recover lost or deleted files you need a specialized tools (such as data 
recovery programs).
I don't see a way to recover files using python itself but perhaps using a 
data recovery program written in Python.

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Elias