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Offline tnfoto

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file recovery?
« on: Yesterday at 07:01:29 PM »
Is there any chance Photo Mechanic Plus stores a preview image anywhere on the hard drive outside of the folder with the original files? I accidentally deleted (and emptied trash and overwrote the memory cards) for a folder of raw files. I had, however, edited the whole folder in Photo Mechanic prior to my snafu. I've spent hours with disk recovery software with no luck. But if even the preview jpegs were still somewhere on my drive, that'd be something. I have a bad feeling they were in that same folder but are there any suggestions??

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Re: file recovery?
« Reply #1 on: Today at 09:08:50 AM »
Photo Mechanic stores cached files in the Disk Cache folder specified in Photo Mechanic's caching settings. However, the amount of storage this folder uses is limited by the Disk Cache Size setting (by default set to 1GB) and by default Photo Mechanic empties the Disk Cache when the application quits. The files would be organized into multiple randomly named folders, so I wouldn't have too high of expectations that you'll find anything in there, but couldn't hurt to look.