You'll have to use Norton or some other recovery utility. Because video files are almost always too big to fit in the Recycle bin, Scenalyzer just deletes them. If it is important to recover them, do as little as possible with your computer until you get Norton installed, or you risk truly over-writing the data that has been deleted (the recovery utilities can recover the data because when you delete, only the directory entry is deleted; the data remains. This data can be reconstructed by smart software.

BTW, in the General tab in the Scenalyzer Options dialog is a checkbox that says "ask for confirmation before deleting video files." Make sure this is checked to avoid having such a problem in the future.

Despite your problem with Scenalyzer, I highly recommend the product. The capture feature in Vegas is not one of its strong points. Scenalyzer beats it in just about every respect, and has many, many features not found in Vegas, including:

Capture across ALL hard drives (when one fill up, it just continues onto the next drive)

Time lapse capture. Connect your camera to your computer and watch a flower grow.

Visual clip timeline You can see a timeline of each clip, rather than just a single picon (picture icon). You can scrub back and forth on this timeline.

Playback and print to tape of selected clips. You can just "Ctrl-click" select any clips you want, and then print them directly to tape. Very quick and intuitive.

Capture the second audio channel. If you have audio on your DV tape's second audio channel, Scenalyzer can capture this to a WAV file, in addition to the usual DV video/audio capture.

Optical scene detection. If you have analog video, you can have Scenalyzer create individual files for each scene. It does this by analyzing, in real time, each frame of video. When it detects that things have changed, it starts a new file. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty darn good.

Simple frame capture. Push a button and capture a freeze frame. Much easier than Vegas where you have to remember to get both the Preview and Project settings just right (or use a script) if you want to get full 720x480 (for NTSC DV) resolution.

Stop capturing after a certain time. If you know how long your tape runs, you can set a timer to stop the capture after that time elapses. This keeps you from filling up the hard disk with stuff at the end of a tape that you don't need to capture.

Capture at a future time. You can also set a timer to start capture. This is useful for capturing TV programs etc. Use it just like you would the timer on your VCR.

Stop motion capture. You can capture individual frames just by clicking a mouse. The resulting frames are saved, not in image files, but in one single AVI file. This lets you do "stop motion animation" of the type made famous in claymation movies like the brilliant "Wallace and Gromit" series or (from the same director) "Chicken Run."

Stick with Scenalyzer. It is a great product.