Can files deleted by System.IO.File.Delete method be restored?

[Raymond Du]

Hi,

I am working on a VB.Net window application, the application use
System.IO.File.Delete method to delete files, can those deleted files be
restored?

TIA

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Raymond Du" <rd**@yahoo.com> schrieb:

I am working on a VB.Net window application, the application use
System.IO.File.Delete method to delete files, can those deleted files be
restored?

They cannot be restored using the recycle bin, but the data maybe can be
restored using certain special software.

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[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

You can use the SHFileOperation API delete a file to recycle bin.

The api declare

<DllImport("shell32.dll", entrypoint:="SHFileOperationA", _

setlasterror:=True, CharSet:=CharSet.Auto, exactspelling:=True, _

CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.StdCall)> _

Public Shared Function SHFileOperation(ByRef lpFileOp As SHFILEOPSTRUCT) As
Integer

End Function

The structure

Structure SHFILEOPSTRUCT

Dim hwnd As Integer

Dim wFunc As Integer

Dim pFrom As String

Dim pTo As String

Dim fFlags As Short

Dim fAnyOperationsAborted As Integer

Dim hNameMappings As Integer

Dim lpszProgressTitle As String ' only used if FOF_SIMPLEPROGRESS

End Structure

The constants

Private Const FO_DELETE = &H3

Private Const FOF_ALLOWUNDO = &H40

And finally the same code.

Dim sh As New SHFILEOPSTRUCT

With sh

.wFunc = FO_DELETE

.pFrom = FileName

.fFlags = FOF_ALLOWUNDO

End With

If SHFileOperation(sh) <> 0 Then

MessageBox.Show("Error deleting file")

End If
Ken

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"Raymond Du" <rd**@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am working on a VB.Net window application, the application use
System.IO.File.Delete method to delete files, can those deleted files be
restored?

TIA