[HLUG] Fwd: Dolphin help

[sean]

hi pete,

On 13/10/2022 16:52, pl via Herefordshire wrote:
> Hi Jools,
>
> Ta for this; however the problem is that I deleted the folder 
> containing the file- NOT the file itself which would have yielded to 
> the methods I already attempted.
>
> I still have the PC running and not done any additional work on it since.
>
> Had a look at the tool you linked to and various follow ons and it's 
> all about recovery of drives and partitions, or individual files. 
> Nowhere do I find a tool that will let me recover a deleted folder :(
>
> Thanks for the prompt response,
>
in unix/linux everything is a file. a directory/folder is just a file 
consisting of information about files, typically name and set of inode 
number(s).  the inode numbers point to the file contents.

testrec is another tool you can try and also scalpel. otherwise a hex 
editor.

regards

sean


> Pete
>
> On 13/10/2022 14:45, Julian Robbins via Herefordshire wrote:
>> Hi Pete
>>
>> Firstly, don't touch the pc ! There's a decent chance if you haven't
>> changed too many files since then that you could restore it using 
>> PhotoRec
>> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/photorec-recover-deleted-files-in-linux-ubuntu 
>>
>>
>> This allows you to recover deleted files as long as the deleted file you
>> are looking for hasn't itself been overwritten, but probably not as yet.
>>
>> PhotoRec is an awesome tool and well worth anyone trying it out. I've
>> certainly used it to restore files for others that they believed lost 
>> and a
>> few times for myself.
>>
>> Good luck !!
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 14:36, pl via Herefordshire <
>> herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gang,
>>>
>>> Distractions; I just managed to delete a folder containing just the one
>>> .odt document I spent all day yesterday writing. I could really do with
>>> recovering it.
>>>
>>> Dolphin shows trash as empty.
>>>
>>> Recent docs in Libreoffice shows as folder/document missing. So no
>>> recovery available from there.
>>>
>>> Dolphin help offers nothing to recover deleted folders; only files :(
>>>
>>> Any help much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Pete H@
>>>
>>>
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