NetWare Gurus, A user created a folder on a Novell NetWare 5 network drive this morning and added a bunch of files to the folder. The folder and its contents were inadvertently deleted and need to be salvaged.The salvage utility in ConsoleOne v.1.3.6d and NetWare Administrator v.5.1.9f listed only salvageable files but no folders. Can anyone suggest a utility that can recover the deleted folder(with the folder tree structure) and its contents. Thanks for your help. think smart

No way, because Netware did not store folder informations of deleted files. You have to salvage the files and the user has to create new folders and put the files into them. Just bad luck.

Actually, Netware retains salvagable information for deleted folders in the same way it stores deleted files. You must check if the purge immediate flag is set on the volume or within that directory branch. If it is, then nothing is salvageable. In nwadmin, open the root of the volume,. click on tools, and salvage. Under source, change from "current dirctory" to from "deleted directories". Then search. Any files restored from here will be in their actual directory structure but located in the the deleted.sav folder. You can then restore files without overwriting newer ones. You can also use the tool Filer.exe in your public directory to accomplish the same thing.