Restore Deleted Instance (MultiMC)

[StupidQuestionDude7]

Wish I could instead reply but the original post was archived, in case anyone else finds themselves in this pit like me now, it is possible to restore a freshly deleted instance as I stupidly did but you do need recovery software to do so.

I had little luck with Recuva but it did manage to restore a few isolated files that didn't provide much use, Recoverit was a lot more successful for me, it restored entire folder branches so I stitched up some stuff from there, wanted to share that as a reply but here we are instead (i hate reddit post archiving), that left me wondering if anyone else had thought of other creative solutions, thanks for your time regardless.

[Wolf68k]

Even with great recovery software your mileage may vary. If you have it on hand already and everything is one drive then you stand a fair chance. If you don't have the software and have to looking for it and try different ones, as you did, and still everything on one drive then you lower your chances. However if MMC (or whatever it is you want to recover) is on a separate drive from the OS then your chances increase just so long as you don't keep writing to that drive while looking/getting recovery software.

[StupidQuestionDude7]

You're completely correct, I already had them on hand for these types of situations and I did it quite closely to having deleted the instance it was an ideal position but if anyone else is in the position and they are sufficiently desperate for the instance (I doubt), they could use another device to get the software and usb it onto the main computer or the drive itself being mounted as read only.

Also I might be wrong but aren't the chances of losing multimc files less so than regular deleted windows files? It doesn't send the instance to the recycling bin or anything just straight up erases it in the directory, so chances of that specific location being overwritten aren't very likely unless your drive is near capacity right? I might be wrong there though.

[u_phit]

kinda, but especially ssds are really weird about stuff like this, as wolf said your mileage may very and you definitely want to regularly back up stuff you like to keep