how to retrieve mv deleted folder
 

I lost my folder name "....hemanth" while moving the folder "....hemanth" to "Documents" using mv command in the terminal .As there is already a folder named Documents in that destination folder I lost folder.please help me in retrieving the folder as that folder is very important for me.please............
thanks in advance .

mv also renames files.
You could have just renamed the directory "hemanth" to "Documents".
Or check inside the "Documents" directory for "hemanth" or another "Documents" directory.

You would need to show us the exact commands you used, but I think you will find that it exists somewhere.

One thing to keep in mind: As long as the source and destination are on the same physical device (eg a partition), nothing actually gets **moved**. In these cases, "mv" really means "rename".

Consider 2 examples: You have files named "fred" and "alice", and you have a folder named "stuff"

mv fred stuff **This renames ./fred to ./stuff/fred Thus fred now appears to have been moved into the "stuff" folder. (Note that "." is a synonym for "current directory")

mv fred alice **This renames ./fred to ./alice and thus appears to erase whatever was in alice. It's not however really erased---the old data in alice is still on the disk, but the sectors have just been released to the filesystem for re-use.

From the above, we see that--by default--mv can wipe out the target, but probably will not wipe out the source.