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Titanic12342
New member | Level 2
4 years ago
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Recovering Deleted Files from over a year ago

A friend of mine had logged into my account, took my stuff to another flashdrive and deleted my files from my account without my knowing, recently I tried to get the stuff back from Garry's Mod since...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    Titanic12342 wrote:

    ... is there anyway at all I can get those files back?

    If they were deleted outside of your recovery period (30 days for Basic, Plus and Family accounts, 180 days for Professional and Business) then there's no way to recover them.

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Chris1825282
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
Hey, my question is, how I get back my deleted files ( over 1 year)

Thanks for the help 🙂
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Mark
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3 years ago

Hi Chris1825282 

 

I'm afraid you cannot - there is no way to recover deleted files after the recovery window expires (i.e. 30 days for free or 180 days for paid). Upgrades are also not retroactive. 

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