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How to Restore Lost/Accidentally Deleted Files from Your MESA M: drive

Step 1

Open a web browser and navigate to tools.gmu.edu. Log in with your Patriot Pass credentials.

Step 2

Select Restore from the left-hand menu.

 

Step 3

You will be presented with a list of MESA shares that you have access to, including your personal files which are located in My Data. Select the share from which you deleted the file.

Step 4

Select the day that you would like to have restored, you can go back as far as 3 months. Every file in that share will be restored, you cannot select individual files.

If there is a lot of data in that share, it may take a while to restore.

Step 5

Your MESA restore is now complete and will be located in M:\restores. Please copy your files to the appropriate location as soon as possible as the restored files will be removed in 3 days.

Last modified: February 19, 2021

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