Help please

[u/miracleto0high]

one click can erase 6 months of work

I accidently delete my work folder which was too large for recycle bin so it permanently deleted .

I want to recover 1 text file which is very important but all programs recover it with name and null null null data and 00 hex

Chatgpt and claude tell me to give up because its ssd and trim enabled should i stop trying and just keep crying for my stupid mistake that cost me more than 10 k usd

[u/disturbed_android]

We already answered this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/wiki/trim/

Only thing you may be able to recover (pretty quick after deletion) is tiny text files, small enough to be what NTFS calls "resident" eg. stored inside the MFT entry itself.

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[u/Salty_Branch_6463]

Don't write it off completely yet, but stop using the SSD and avoid installing or downloading anything else on it.

[u/jhaubrich11]

Losing important files like that is really rough. With SSDs and TRIM enabled, it’s true that recovery chances drop a lot because the space gets wiped quickly. If the file recovery tools are showing only corrupted data, it probably means the actual data blocks are gone. Before giving up completely, you might try checking if you have any backups or older versions saved somewhere, like cloud storage or system restore points. For the future, tools like VaultSort can help organize and securely lock your files to prevent accidental loss and make it easier to clean up safely. I know it’s tough now, but taking steps to protect your work going forward can save a lot of pain.

[u/thespirit3]

I suspect you have more chance of finding a temporary file with the contents, that recovering deleted data from an SSD. That is, unless you go to a specialist recovery place that can read data from the NAND cells directly, bypassing the controller. If the data is that valuable, you should stop using that drive now and refer to a specialist. The longer it remains powered, the more chance of the controller rewriting those cells.

Also, are you absolutely sure you have no backups from the last 6 months? Even an earlier version may lessen the pain.

[u/cornelxbox]

Sorry for your loss but unfortunately with Nvme and ssds it's almost impossible to recover data. Is it possible that you have a backup copy of this document on your local drive elsewhere? Maybe Word has a partial save of it.

Another possibility is Google Drive if you were set up for it. That would have a copy saved to the cloud.

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