topic Re: Question about lyr file that has missing a shapefile in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558034#M31637 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:46:21 GMT DEAF_PROBERT_68 2015-02-12T14:46:21Z Question about lyr file that has missing a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558032#M31635 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Somebody in the office deleted a point shapefile that has a lyr file as well. How can I recovery it ? Scripts ? Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:52:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558032#M31635 DEAF_PROBERT_68 2015-02-12T01:52:20Z Re: Question about lyr file that has missing a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558033#M31636 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Robert,</P><P></P><P>The layer file (.lyr) only stores only the link to the shapefile/feature class along-with symbology.</P><P>Unless you have a backup data, you could you could retrieve the deleted files using third-party data recovery software. There is no tool to retrieve the deleted shapefile.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm" title="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm">18 Free Data Recovery Software Tools (February 2015)</A> </P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Jay</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:05:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558033#M31636 JayantaPoddar 2015-02-12T10:05:38Z Re: Question about lyr file that has missing a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558034#M31637 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:46:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558034#M31637 DEAF_PROBERT_68 2015-02-12T14:46:21Z Re: Question about lyr file that has missing a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558035#M31638 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">While this is a good tempting to use it on your personal computer it is a good to have; however my computer is under the Government so we are not allowed to download these programs on them.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were able to recovery it by requesting our IT department to restore it.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 15 Mar 2015 03:03:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/question-about-lyr-file-that-has-missing-a/m-p/558035#M31638 DEAF_PROBERT_68 2015-03-15T03:03:16Z