deleted empty folders not easy to find back

ffaucher

It would be nice if the deleted folders, after using "clean and fix my computer", were sent to the recycle bin as Windows Explorer does, so they can be resore easily in case of. Actually, with the file backups, I don't see what's inside that kind of backup.

redseujac

ffaucher wrote
Actually, with the file backups, I don't see what's inside that kind of backup.

You can see it: right click on a backup item and choose "List backed up files".

ffaucher

That method works well with backups of registry entries deleted: you see the list of these entries. But right clicking on a file backup (for an empty folder deleted) show me the notepad with nothing written. I would have expected to see an icon bearing the folder name on it

or at least the full path (for example C:\user\my documents\videos)

leonardo

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ffaucher

Exactly, that's what it does to me to: files deleted, registry entries deleted (when using registry cleaner) are listed but not empty folders or files.

Actually, I use jv16PT2011 to scan my system for empty folders. Then, from that list, I delete those folders with the Windows explorer in order to keep them in the bin at least for some time before deleting them.

tullik

You can see the full path of deleted empty folders as follows:

1. Bring up the Backup Tool.

2. Select the backup line of the run that you know included the deletion of empty folders. You have to know since there is no indication in the list.

3. Right click the line and choose the "Explore" action.

4. Open the dirs.dat file with notepad.

Example:


Dirs=1

1=C:\Users\Public\Documents\sun\

tullik

Also, there is sort of a bug IMO. To wit:

When a folder is not really empty, but contains only one (or more?) empty file(s), the folder is chosen by PowerTools as if it were really empty.

leonardo

tullik wrote
You can see the full path of deleted empty folders as follows:

1. Bring up the Backup Tool.

2. Select the backup line of the run that you know included the deletion of empty folders. You have to know since there is no indication in the list.

3. Right click the line and choose the "Explore" action.

4. Open the dirs.dat file with notepad.

Do you know if not showing the empty folders by 'right clicking on a file backup + list backed up files' is by design? Or should these files be listed indeed?

tullik

Leonardo wrote
tullik wroteYou can see the full path of deleted empty folders as follows:

1. Bring up the Backup Tool.

2. Select the backup line of the run that you know included the deletion of empty folders. You have to know since there is no indication in the list.

3. Right click the line and choose the "Explore" action.

4. Open the dirs.dat file with notepad.

Do you know if not showing the empty folders by 'right clicking on a file backup + list backed up files' is by design? Or should these files be listed indeed?

I don't really know, but it's probably by design. Most users wouldn't care to reference all that detail about empty folders. The context menu "Explore" option provides an easy way for those users who do want to examine the nitty-gritty.

Although the backup description seldom makes it obvious which backups contain deleted empty folders, those few users that need to know can use File Finder to search for dirs.dat in the Backups folder. I may be wrong, but I believe the dirs.dat file is only created in a backup structure when PowerTools "thinks" it has removed empty folders.

leonardo

tullik wrote
.......Although the backup description seldom makes it obvious which backups contain deleted empty folders, those few users that need to know can use File Finder to search for dirs.dat in the Backups folder. I may be wrong, but I believe the dirs.dat file is only created in a backup structure when PowerTools "thinks" it has removed empty folders.

Thank you Tullik. As far as I can see (based on two simple tests) the dirs.dat seems to contain only the removed empty folders.