That sounds heartbreaking.
Are you and your husband absolutely certain that you guys didn't make
any back ups of your projects?
How long ago did you upgrade to PD13? It sounds like you had created some projects with it and only later discovered that your PD11 projects were missing. Again, I'm looking for a date that you could go back to if you had any kind of backup. One thing that might help is to look at where your PD13 projects are currently stored. What is the name of the folder and where is it located? You mention that you have 3 external drives - do you remember if you ever changed where PD11 was storing your projects to one of those drives?
You can try searching again using Recuva with
*.pds in the
Filename or path box. That will locate all deleted PD projects and would give you a clue as to where the deleted clips are.
If that doesn't help, under the
Options button, click on the
Actions tab and check the first 3 boxes in the
Scanning section and search again. If that doesn't work, check the last box (Scan for non-deleted files) and see if you get any hits. The last resort is to check the Deep Scan box, and it will definitely take a long time but that setting has the highest chance of recovering something.
As Playsound mentioned, the files can only be recovered IF the section of disk that the data is on has not been overwritten by newer files. The longer it's been since the files went missing, the less likely it is that you'll be able to recover the files even if you can locate them.
However, if the deleted files are on an external drive that hasn't been used much or at all since the disappearance happened, then once you locate them you'll be able to get most of all of them back.
I wish I had more optimistic news, and I can't for the life of me understand why your old files would have disappeared in the first place. If we could understand that, retrieving them would be much, much easier.
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