Vasilii is a data recovery specialist with around 10 years of hands-on experience in the field. Throughout his career, he has successfully solved thousands of complex cases involving deleted files, formatted drives, lost partitions, and RAW file systems. His expertise covers both manual recovery methods using professional tools like hex editors and advanced automated solutions with recovery software. Vasilii's mission is to make reliable data recovery knowledge accessible to both IT professionals and everyday users, helping them safeguard their valuable digital assets.
If your Sims 4 save files disappeared, avoid creating new saves until you know what happened. Your game files may still exist in another Documents folder, OneDrive may have redirected them, or The Sims 4 may be reading a newly created empty folder. Start with the safest built-in options. If the original .save files were […]
When a session opens with a Pro Tools missing files warning, your recordings are not necessarily deleted. Pro Tools may simply have lost the path to audio stored on another folder, internal hard drive, or external disk. Moving a WAV file, disconnecting a recording drive, renaming folders, or making cloud files unavailable locally can all […]
If your TurboTax files disappeared, do not assume your tax return was erased. TurboTax Desktop may stop showing a recent-file entry even though the .taxYYYY file still exists, or TurboTax Online may appear empty because you signed in with a different Intuit account. Start by searching for the file, checking the correct account, reviewing the […]
If your Obsidian files disappeared after reopening a vault, reinstalling Obsidian, syncing another device, or deleting a folder, do not immediately assume the notes are permanently gone. They may still exist in another vault, the Recycle Bin, Obsidian File Recovery, Sync version history, or a backup. Start with this deleted file recovery guide to understand […]
If Illustrator crashes before you save, how to recover unsaved files from Illustrator depends on what the application managed to write before it closed. A crash may leave Adobe recovery data, while a cloud document may contain an earlier version. However, a never-saved project is different from a saved .ai file that was later deleted. […]
If you need to recover 0KB files, do not begin by renaming extensions or running repair commands. A file that truly reports 0 bytes has no readable payload inside that file entry. The missing content may still exist in an earlier version, backup, autosave copy, deleted original, or unallocated disk space. This guide shows how […]
If an app crashed, Windows restarted, or a cleanup tool removed temporary data, you may need to recover files from temp folder before the remaining copies disappear. First identify what was actually lost: an unsaved document, an existing .tmp file, a deleted temp file, or the original saved file. This guide separates those cases and […]
If you need to recover files from formatted SSD, the first few minutes after formatting matter more than most people realize. A mistaken format can make work documents, photos, project files, or backups disappear instantly, but the chance of getting them back depends heavily on what happens next. Unlike traditional hard drives, SSDs handle deleted […]
If you need to recover data from NAS drive, first identify what actually happened. Accidentally deleted files, an empty NAS Recycle Bin, a failed enclosure, a degraded RAID array, and physical disk damage all require different recovery methods. In many cases, checking built-in NAS protection should come before disk-level recovery. Because most NAS devices ultimately […]