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How to Recover Lost Files during Cut and Paste?


Summary

We usually use Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X, and Ctrl + V as shortcut keys to finish our work when dealing with some files. But accidents often happen. Data may get lost after a cut and before you press "Ctrl + V". So how to recover lost files during cut and paste? Here you will find the answer.


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Reasons for File Loss Due to Failed Transfer of Cut and Paste Files

  1. Unexpected Shutdown: Power failure is one of the most common problems that interrupt the file moving process. If your system shuts down suddenly due to some reasons when you are transferring files from one drive to another one using a cut paste option, then you lose all data that were being transferred from the source storage drive.

  2. Improper Removal of Storage Drives: As we know, USB flash drives are frequently used to transfer data from one system to another. However, you will lose files by forcefully reject it when the cut paste process is in progress.

  3. Other possible reasons including abnormal system termination, hardware failure. After the file is cut, you have performed other actions before press "Ctrl + V", etc.

How to Deal with Such Problems?

  • First of all, you should never rewrite the original data with any new files, otherwise, the data will disappear forever.

  • Secondly, to recover your data, you need a professional software such as Bitwar Data Recovery.


You can use Bitwar Data Recovery to recover lost files during cut and paste.
It is reliable and easy to use. It can recover all sorts of data, files, and even compatible with storage devices like memory cards, flash drives, and external hard drives. 

Steps to Recover Data after Cut and Paste

Step 1. Download Bitwar Data Recovery on this URL: https://www.bitwar.net/data-recovery-software/


You can also use Bitwar Data Recovery for Mac to restore lost videos under macOS. Please never install it on the drive containing lost data, for this may cause irretrievable data loss.

   

Step 2: Launch Bitwar software and get its main interface as follows. Select "Deleted File Recovery" when you want to recover the Data after Cut and Paste.


Deleted File Recovery


Step 3: Please select the target drive/device to recover the lost data and click "Next."


Select Device


Select the file type to which the file you want to recover belongs. You can select one or two data types or all data types. Then click on the button "Next".


Select File Type


Step 4: Now, Bitwar Data Recovery will start scan to find lost files quickly, you will see all missing files that match the selection will be listed. Then you can make a selective recovery with Preview before recovery.

Preview


Select the lost files during the cut and paste and click "Recover" to save them to another safe location in the PC/storage device. 
Here, you'd better save all the recovered files on a different drive or device in case of data recovery failure.


Preview and recover lost data


Thus, the lost files during cut and paste have been recovered.


If you are satisfied with the recovery result, then you can close the program; if you haven't restored desired files, you can try "Deep Recovery." Deep Recovery can find much more lost files thoroughly by searching into the file indexes, while it takes a longer time.


Tips:

  • If you choose Cut and Paste, the files will remove from the original place and then it will be posted in another place;

  • If you choose Copy and Paste, you will have 2 copies of files with exactly the same name, size, and contents.

 
So, if you want to reduce the risk of data loss, you had better choose Copy and Paste. However, if you find your data are lost caused by some unknown reasons during the process of cutting files, you can try using Bitwar Data Recovery to quickly and effectively recover lost data. 


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