No, I am here. Just a busy mom lol. I have not tried recovering deleted files. That is something I will be trying to do! I consider myself pretty computer savvy, BUT, I have a lot to learn about more advanced stuff.... such as recovering deleted files. My husband suggested taking my old computers to someone with more experience, but, that makes me incredibly nervous, for obvious reasons ha!
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Anyway, have you tried recovering deleted files on that HDD? There is a possibility that the traces of files you uploaded on that AOL is still lingering on those sectors of your HDD. I just hope that the sector holding those important files was not overwritten by other files that can cause errors (corrupted files) when retrieving them.