How to retrieve a mistakenly deleted Word document

If you do not properly keep the edited Word document when working on a computer, it is easy to lose the file. In fact, when a file is accidentally deleted, there are some ways to find it. Here are some for your reference.

Method 1: Recycle bin recovery

If a document is deleted from the desktop, the computer system will automatically save the deleted data in the Recycle Bin. Users can directly open the Recycle Bin, select the file to be recovered, and right-click to select Restore to retrieve the lost file.

Recycle Bin recovery is mainly applicable to some temporarily deleted files. For example, if you accidentally press the Delete key, or if you accidentally delete files in other ways, the files will be temporarily deleted.

Method 2: Use Geekersoft data recovery

If the Recycle Bin is emptied, users can also use Geekersoft Data Recovery, a professional data recovery software, to recover documents. The detailed tutorial is as follows:

Open the official website of Geekersoft Data Recovery in the browser of your computer, download and install the software for free, and then select the disk where the "mistakenly deleted recovery" file is located in the first interface.

Enter the interface for selecting the original data storage location. If the Word document was directly stored on the desktop, you can click the desktop to scan it.

After scanning, the recovered data files will be displayed on the scanning results. Users can click "Document" in "File Type" to search for files, or click "Preview Mode" in the lower right corner to preview the selected files to ensure the accurate recovery of files. Finally, select the desired files and click the "Recovery" button in the lower right corner to get the recovered file.

Retrieve a mistakenly deleted Word document summary

The above are the two recovery methods for the wrongly deleted Word documents. Users can choose different methods to recover data according to their own actual conditions. Finally, we should also suggest that you can regularly back up your important data. So that files can be found in backup at the first time.