I was trying to clear up some space on my computer and deleted a bunch of files I had floating around that were taking up a bunch of space. I wasn't sure what they were for. But it turns out they were kind of important! Apparently they were required for my wife's accounting software to run. It was a big deal for us - we needed to restore those files ASAP.
I know that deleting a file doesn't necessarily destroy the actual data, so I didn't lose hope yet. I tried some things first - there are programs out there that promise to restore deleted files. But nothing worked. So we decided to let Secure Data Recovery Services have a try. We explained the problem, and they got to work.
They were able to fix the problem quite easily, it seems. They called the next day to say they found the deleted files and had them restored. The software started working as if nothing happened!
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