I recently conducted a study using media lab that included essay questions. The data was then saved in a data folder itself containing two folders: byvariablename and byquestionnaire.
But i can't find the txt files of the essay questions in there, where are they saved to?

Unfortunately each week all files on the computer I worked on are deleted, and now I fear that I may have lost those txt. files (in case they were saved in another folder besides the data folder).

1) where are the txt.files saved to?
2) is there a way to retrieve them from the byvariablename/byquestionnaire folders?