lost pictures

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Pete Smith

One of my kids deleted a user on home computer and now I
have lost all my pictures on the hard drive is there
anyway of retreiving them. It tells me the pictures are
under the user that no longer exists. I am running
windows xp operating system. Which allows better
security, but will not allow me to transfer them to
another user.
 
Did you try looking for them in Windows Explorer? Seems like I remember an
option when deleting a user to not get rid of the files, and if that was
used, they may be still there. From windows explorer, find your windows
drive (probably C), click the + next to Documents and Settings, and look
through any subfolders (it should be in a 'My Pictures' subfolder of a 'My
Documents' folder under a user name or number, just keep clicking the pluses
until you find all of them.

As long as you're on an account with administrator privileges, you should be
able to access those folders regardless of whose they are/were.

Or, you can right click the C drive and choose search, and type in "my
pictures" and see if it finds the folder. If they chose to delete all that
user's documents when they got rid of the user, you could check the recycle
bin, but I don't know if that's used. If not, it's unlikely you can recover
them if you've used the computer much since then.

This is a good reminder (for me too) that there's usually no reason that
most users need full privileges, and it's probably wise to give them only
limited privileges when they're created. If the administrator accounts need
a password, they probably wouldn't have been able to do what they did.
 
Hi Pete

I believe you can buy software to retrieve lost files. Failing that have you tried restoring your system to a time before the pictures were lost?
 
when you restore do you dont loose files......it rolls back an removes any
programs you might of installed that made the computer malfunction. if you
deleted the files you will need a program to restore data. other ways of
finding pictures if you can find them is to click on the start button,
search, and look for *.jpg
that will scan your pc and find any pictures in that format, if thats what
format u used
 
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