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Old 05-12-2005, 08:43 PM   #1
ebil
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data recovery [/usr/bin]


i was installing firefox update to /usr/bin cause thats where i have it installed, and then it told me it already had an installation in that dir, and asked if i wanted to remove that installation, so i clicked remove, and the piece of **** deleted my whole /usr/bin directory!!
how can i get all this back!
 
Old 05-12-2005, 08:51 PM   #2
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When I manually install things like that, I do it to "/home/godzero/manual_installs" then I symlink "/home/godzero/bin/app_name to app_path/app_name" for just that reason.

You can try:
recover-1.3c-2mdk
undelete-0.6-1mdk
or (looks more promising)
magicrescue-1.1.4-1mdk
 
  


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