WUTemp folder question. Please read.

skuba · #1 03-15-2004, 01:45 PM

Hi,
By accident I placed one of my folder inside the WUTemp
folder, and now the WUTemp folder is empty.
There are no files on my recycle been.
Did I loose all the info on my folder?
Is there a way to restore that?

Thanks a lot for helping,
Skuba

Azn_tweaker · #2 03-15-2004, 02:37 PM

System Restore.. WUTEMP, i think is the windows Update stuff.

skuba · #3 03-15-2004, 02:40 PM

Yes, WUTemp is win update stuff. But I don't think that system store will Undelete a folder inside that folder.
The WUTemp is a temp folder used by win update. I placed a real folder with work stuff in there. So I guess that when I turned offf the computer on friday, windows deleted everything in that folder.

Azn_tweaker · #4 03-15-2004, 02:42 PM

then is WUTEMP affecting ur PC?

skuba · #5 03-15-2004, 02:44 PM

Affecting? What do you mean?

What happened is that I placed an subfolder there by accident. I moved a work folder there instead of to another folder. And everything there was lost.

Azn_tweaker · #6 03-15-2004, 02:50 PM

are they hidden files?
if they are start-my computer-tools-folder options-view- click-show hidden files and folders.

skuba · #7 03-15-2004, 02:53 PM

The files were DELETED. I checked on MS-DOS.

snowmonkey · #8 03-15-2004, 04:31 PM

skuba, WUTemp stands for Windows Update Temporary file,, basically it is used to windows update, when you download a patch from MS site, it will pit it in there temporarily and after you reboot the system or download a new patch those files gets deleted (I thought you knew this much by I mentioned it again) now the question is what method of delete of Eraser Microsoft has used to delete the file, if the have shred the files then you would have a chance or recovery it but if the have delete the file in a chunk then some of the undelete programs i.e. http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ may help you out.

cheers