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Circle Dock / Re: circledock DELETED ALL MY FILES! help!
« on: February 04, 2010, 01:32 PM »
i wont comment on the "they could have ignored you" post, as "i could save initiated a lawsuit" is the only answer to that attitude. However, I understand the point that some programmers out there dont care, and that these guys are not part of that group.

sarge- where is the updated version posted?

seperately, why can it not be made portble already, without the needto install and "make a portable" whenyoure already inside the program?

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Circle Dock / Re: circledock DELETED ALL MY FILES! help!
« on: February 04, 2010, 07:14 AM »
Well, I'm not going to say I'm recovered, but what are you going todo. I'm still shellshocked, but it appears that the program recovered lot of what was deleted, except for the 5gig of email, but Ihad a backup on my laptop, but not that recent.

To those who had nothing to do with this, and who extended their thought and donation, I thankyou for your quick participation.

To the programmer, the only way to learn is to make mistakes, but it migt be wise in the future to "measure twice and cut once" when it comes to file operations on the user's computer.  Leason learned. And for me too-- except I dont know what my lesson is: dont trust open source software?

thanks again for the people trying to help. it was timely, the help, to be sure.

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Circle Dock / Re: circledock DELETED ALL MY FILES! help!
« on: February 03, 2010, 05:12 PM »
thanks, mouse and sarge

Sarge, i'mtrying recuva and active file recovery 7.5 trial.

i know that i can use the drive at all, so i'm dead in the water until the recovery is successful.

i can use recuva, butthen i dont want to copy te recovred data backto the drive since then it's too late to try another one to seeif it could do better.

by the way, this is mostly data. i use portable thunderbird with about a 5 gig message store, and it's evicerated.  so much of my problem is data. I could easily restore programs, that's easy, but the data-- ut has to be recovered 100%, otherwiseit wont open up in the respective programs

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Circle Dock / Re: circledock DELETED ALL MY FILES! help!
« on: February 03, 2010, 04:51 PM »
Stephen66515 :

It's very unlikely it is NOT responsible for this. Thisis a relatively clean new build, I have an engineering degree and have been using computers since the beginning, and building them for family. I know how viruses work, and have the full protection.   The program started thrashing the disk as soon as  I chose the optionsI indicate, and hit ok. It's clearly programmed, whatever this portable routine is.


Im running xp x86 sp3
The drive is totaly fine, there's no "not seeing" etc., the program just went through like a buzz saw and took out whole directories as it was doing this portable thing.  Deleted probably a couple of hundred directories, some had pieces left as I interrupted it before it finished.

My 1st instinct was to seewhere all this had been copied, hopefully, but on C and also on I: there was no trace. No large temp file, nothing.I though it had just related the files. But to where?

Unbelievable.CD was instaleld on C. I dont see my files there. On I, they were deleted,with bits left. Luckiy, some directories, few dozen, remained totally intact, as the process had not finished.Luck wouldhave it that my emails, receipts, scans, attachments, programs, etc were in the places that got ripped.

Anyway,very unhappy, trying to use a data recovery programhere and it's able to recover chunks, butnot all. My whole day has been spent on this, in between rubbing my eyes and pacing back and forth while the data recovery picks up my deleted files...

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Circle Dock / circledock DELETED ALL MY FILES! help!
« on: February 03, 2010, 03:56 PM »
OK, I know this sounds crazy, but I installed circled dock today, I dl it about early afternoon Feb 3. I dont know what version (otherthan 1.xx) because I wont open it again.

I opened up preferences and chose the "make portable" and also chose the other option there. I figured it would put a portable version on my drive. I chose drive I, the one with all my programs and data.

CD kind of froze a bit, but my disk was going like nuts, I figured it was indexing exe files to create shortcuts for

Well, after 10 minutes, I couldnt take the wait, I figured it was stuck in a loop, and I closed it.

Well, I no longer had privoxy, no longer had maxthon, no longer had thunderbird,

ALL MY PROGRAMS WERE DELETED! Some remnants remained, probably because I canceled the opertion

guys-- what the HECK is this? why do you have this thing moving and/or deleting whole directories!

I tried to see where stuff had been moved ( if it had been movedat all) and couldnt find it

HELP! here is my stuff! circle dock is directly responsiblefor this. Now myfiles emails receipts, everything is gone

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