[SOLVED] Help, I deleted a file. How do I recover it?
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Distribution: CentOS 5.5 x86_64 (Desktop) & Linux Mint 9 (Netbook)
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Help, I deleted a file. How do I recover it?
Hi,
I deleted a file I need quite badly a couple days ago. I deleted it from GNOME and emptied the trash bin. Will I be able to recover it? It was in my home folder and I have been using that folder quite a bit since then. I need help urgently. I am using CentOS 5.5 x86_64
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by coolgreen1; 11-22-2010 at 03:33 PM.
According to your distro icon you are still working on this machine? Then I doubt that you can recover your file. But you can give it a try. Shutdown your system immediately, best would be to pull the power-plug. Then start fom a live medium like grml and try to recover your file with photorec. It will find many files, you have to search (and pray) that your file is amongst them.
Next time: Backup your important files. If you delete accidently a file, immediately shut down the system, at best with pulling the power plug. Start recovery from a live medium.
Note: He wants you to pulling the power plug, because shutting down the system (killing processes etc.) could possibly overwrite the file. You can avoid this by pulling the power plug.
A couple days ago ? I doubt you can recover it. Try running photorec as recommended and dump files to a different drive. Do not write any more files to the current drive.
I don't condone the "pull the plug" technique, I don't see how this would help.
Distribution: CentOS 5.5 x86_64 (Desktop) & Linux Mint 9 (Netbook)
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It appears the file is unrecoverable. I will just have to start over. I have made a folder that will not let me delete it or its contents that I will be saving needed docs in so this will not happen again.
It appears the file is unrecoverable. I will just have to start over. I have made a folder that will not let me delete it or its contents that I will be saving needed docs in so this will not happen again.
You might also want to find a backup solution. I've had luck with BackInTime, which gives you a timeline of past versions of a file. You save the backups to another directory (preferably on an external medium e.g. USB drive etc.). You can schedule the backups to occur at any frequency you desire.
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