Recover deleted files ext4 home directory
Oh my gosh I'm an idiot. I have recently started using KDevelop as an editor for my websites and tonight I was playing around with using it properly with projects and whatnot. So I go Project > New and I insert the directory my files are currently in, it evens says 'there are files currently in here'. So I click proceed thinking it would automatically add the files to the project and just after I clicked I thought 'I should create a backup before I do this.' Well, too late, I've already clicked and KDevelop just wiped the folder.
Being a geek I calmly went on Google on my other computer and searched for linux undelete tools. I found 'testdisk' which I have tried using via an Ubunutu Live CD I have (12.04) but it sees the deleted directory I want, just no files in it. Help me please, is there any other way? It's an entire (not small) website I've been developing and was ready to create a backup (I know, I should do it every night but I haven't been). |
extundelete is a utility that can recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition.
http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/ |
Well, it doesn't compile on Ubuntu 12.04 but I found ext4magic while trying to solve that. I managed to get half my files back and I don't think I'll be able to recover anymore.
Thanks for the help. |
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I'm still an idiot, Wim. I've been using computers enough (and had this happen enough) to back my stuff up frequently. The annoying thing is I was doing this to add all the files to a git repository for backup...
I'll post a bug report as you say, it's a good idea. Forgot about [SOLVED] in all my panic. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307289 |
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