Hi,

I deleted my firefox directory and forgot to back up my bookmarks file. Is there any possiblity I can still retrieve the bookmark file? I am using Fedora core 1.

Thanks,

Mark

If you deleted the file using KDE, it will probably be in your trash folder on your desktop. If you deleted it from the command-line then you won't be able to restore it.

You may be able to find it (or bits of it) if you can remember some of the text that the file contains. In an xterm, run (or whichever partition it was on), press backslash (\) and type in some text. Press Enter and it will start searching for that on the disk itself. You can then select the text in the xterm to copy it, and middle-click to paste it into another window, and get (at least bits of) the file back that way.

Hope that helps,

— Robert J. Lee

You could also try:
Replace [size before], [size after] and [your_partition] with something meaningfull.
e.g.: If you want to undelete a letter (+- 200 lines) starting with "Hi mum" which
was stored on /dev/hda1 you can try:
grep -a -B2 -A200 "Hi mum" /dev/hda1

Good luck

You may also want to take a look at shell command debugfs, which allows you
to undelete deleted files. It would be very helpful if you know what the name
of the file in question was and where it was stored (partition, directory).

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie...ing+file&meta=
produces (for example)
http://www.securityhorizon.com/secur.../undelete.html

to give you further hints.

HTH

Fluxbox just needs to encorporate a trash can, simple as that.