Question : GetDataBack on a USB drive is finding everything except files on the root of the drive

This is peculiar and I wonder if anyone else has gone through this and might be able to offer advice.  I'm trying to recover deleted files off of a USB drive formatted as FAT.  There was no failure of the drive and it is in perfect working condition.  I just need to pull a few files that I Shift+Deleted as backups.  I ran the FAT version of GetDataBack against the drive and it finds *everything* going back to 2008 - old directories that I have long since forgotten - but it's not finding the handful of files I actually need on the root of the drive.  These files were saved quite recently and there's plenty of space on the drive.  How can I force GetDataBack to look at the root?  Or is it trying to tell me that it can't find these very recent files?  Thanks,  

Answer : GetDataBack on a USB drive is finding everything except files on the root of the drive

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