Question about lyr file that has missing a shapefile

[PROBERT68]

Somebody in the office deleted a point shapefile that has a lyr file as well. How can I recovery it ? Scripts ? Thanks

[JayantaPoddar · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

The layer file (.lyr) only stores only the link to the shapefile/feature class along-with symbology.

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.

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Regards,

Jay

[PROBERT68]

Thank you.

[PROBERT68]

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.

We were able to recovery it by requesting our IT department to restore it.