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How to Recover Files Lost in Cut and Paste

1How to Recover Lost Files after Cutting and Pasting Folder?

Hello, I need help on cut paste recovery issue. I transferred a folder, which contains 2GB worth of images (my son's baby snaps), to a usb flash drive by cutting and pasting. Unfortunately my flash drive is damaged recently and I've lost all my photos. Is there any software/method that I can try to recover my photos?

Many users consider that their file will lost forever after cutting and pasting operation. But this isn’t actually true. Once files are cut and pasted from your drive, they’ll be identified as inaccessible data and wait for being overwritten by new files on your drive. You still have chance to retrieve them with a certain cut paste recovery program.

Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare data recovery for mac is one of the best programs that recover cut paste data in an easy and reliable way. It’s able to restore all common file types lost in cut and paste, including images, videos, audio files, documents, etc. The tool is fully compatible for Windows computer and Mac, as well as storage devices like memory card, flash drive and external hard drive.

As it’s hard to tell whether files lost after cutting and pasting can be recovered or not, this powerful program provides you with a free trial version to scan your device before recovery. You can download the trial version from below to recover cut paste data now!

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2Recover Files Lost in Cut and Paste in 3 Steps

I’ll perform cut paste recovery with Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows. If you have a Mac, you can recover cut paste data with the Mac version in similar steps.

Step 1 Select a recovery mode to recover lost files after cutting and pasting folder

As the below image displays, let’s select “Lost File Recovery” mode to recover cut paste data after launching the program.

Note: If you want to restore cut paste files from your computer, please don’t install the program on partition/drive where lost files located.

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Step 2 Scan partition/drive to look for cut and paste files

Here you can select the partition/drive where your files were cut and pasted from and click “Start” button to start searching files.

Note: If files were cut and pasted from external storage device, you need to connect the device to your computer.

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Step 3 Recover files lost in cut and paste

When the scanning is over, you can view found file names and preview some file formats such as photos to check whether cut and paste data can be recovered or not.

If they’re detected, you can select them and click “Recover” to save them to another partition/drive on your computer.

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