How to recover unsaved PDF files?

Aryson Dc
2 min readMay 28, 2019

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Let us discuss how to recover unsaved PDF files on your own

We all have faced the problem of losing unsaved PDF documents. This can happen due to many reasons such as Abrupt system shutdown, power cut, system crash or other such reasons.

So, let us discuss some of the solutions to retrieve unsaved PDF files.

Method 1: Check the Recycle Bin

Whenever you lose a file, try to search the files in Recycle bin to restore them back.

Right click and press restore option. The file will go to the location where you initially saved it.

Many of you might not know that the Recycle Bin has a storage limit, and after it has reached its capacity limit, Windows automatically empties items from the Recycle Bin.

To increase the storage limit of Recycle Bin:

Step 1: Goto the Recycle Bin, right click on it and select “Properties”.

Step 2: Select “Custom Size” from the dialog box and specify the size (in MB).

Step 3: Uncheck the “Don’t move files to Recycle Bin, Removed files immediately when deleted.” Doing this will not delete the data permanently from the recycle bin.

Method 2: Try Restoring from the last backup

Users often look for data backup after they face system crash or other related issues. Taking a backup of your computer time to time is an efficient way to save a copy of your crucial data safely on the storage drive. This will simply give you access to your important data when any data loss takes place. Windows OS provides inbuilt features for data backup and restore. After restoring from the backup, you can move the data to any desired location.

Method 3: Recovery Using Windows Data Recovery Software

You can use the SysInfo Tools PDF Recovery Tool. It has the following features:

  • Repair Unlimited PDF files on your system while maintaining the original content.
  • Repairs corrupted PDF files created by All versions of Adobe Acrobat tool.
  • Operates in two recovering modes: standard mode and advanced mode.
  • PDF Repair tool can exceedingly recover images, text, table, graphic, etc effectively
  • The new search option allows users to search PDF files directly from the directory.
  • Compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
  • The free version of PDF recovery tool restore alternate pages of corrupt PDF file

To Sum Up

There are many reasons that can cause the PDF files to remain unsaved. So, You can try the tricks mentioned here. If it doesn’t work for you, then try the professional tool that you can use.

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