undelete a folder ?

[Constantinos Maltezos]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:59:22 Billie Walsh wrote:
> It's been years since I had to do this and I can't remember just how I
> managed to get to the right place. I was recovering a file but it seems
> that I used DOS to do a "dir" then renamed the file with the correct name.

DOS had an "undelete" command and it would work some times if you did it 
immediately.  And the reason they could do it was because FAT was rather 
primitive - I don't recall exactly how, but I remember that that was the 
case.