How to undelete documents

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Hello all,

by accident, I deleted all documents from my database.

Is there any way to undelete them?

Any help would be very much appreciated!!!

Sonja

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Subject: How to undelete documents

hiIn a database properties last tab with “Allow soft deletions” selected, this command restores a deleted document.

@UndeleteDocument

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Subject: RE: How to undelete documents

Now I have a big problem… I don’t have “allow soft deletions” selected… what to do now…I’m desperate!!

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Subject: RE: How to undelete documents

Do you have a backup to restore from?If you are version 6.5.1 they will be in your trash folder, but if you do not have allow soft deletions they will not be there.

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Subject: RE: How to undelete documents

Thank you for your answers… I hope we have a backup…

Sonja

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Subject: RE: How to undelete documents

HiThat only works, if that option was selected before you deleted your documents. There is a second option “Don’t overwrite free space”. If that option was selected you could probably find deleted stuff on the harddisk. Never tried that. Otherwise Notes overwrites everything that was deleted with zeros for security reasons. I am sorry, but I think they are gone for good.

If you can find a replica of that database which still has all the documents, you could create a new replica of that database. Just do not forget to delete the now empty replica.

cti