Help! I Was Moving Some Files To Another Drive & The Software Crashed!

[joko]

I was using OneCommander folder organiser software & while the folder full of files was moving, OneCommander just closed suddenly.
Now there is a folder with the same name in the new drive but with only a 3rd of the files in it - but there is no folder in the other drive with the unmoved files in it!

Im sure with windows explorer, there if this happened, you may lose the file that was actually being moved when it crashed, but not 4GB worth of files that hadnt yet been moved!

There is no 'undo' option in OneCommander.

Is there anywhere i can search for these missing files?

I cant think where they could be, but its hard to imagine the software would just remove a whole folder before its anywhere near copied.
Im on a PC with Win11
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help :)  (

[Hymie]

This is why I always first copy important files to an external drive (once all is well), then delete them.  All is not lost, the files will still be somewhere on the PC’s hard drive (marked for deletion/overwrite).

 

Someone will be along shortly to recommend free software to download  that can recover the files – in the meantime, minimise doing anything on the PC that results in storing/moving large mounts of data, which could result in an overwrite of the lost files.

[Old_Geezer]

In such a situation I would download and install recovery software to a third drive (to avoid overwriting lost data). Then run it and see what it can recover.

 

I assume it wasn't backed up.

[Hymie]

If you search on-line, there are any number of these free recovery software programs – but be warned, some come with free malware – I’d wait for someone like Buenchico to give his recommendation(s) (which I’m sure he has done in the past).

[ToraToraTora]

have you looked in the waste bin?

if not download some recovery software but don't do anything major with the file system in the interim. When files are deleted they are not actually deleted the directory slot is just marked as available so they are usually recoverable.