[HLUG] Fwd: Dolphin help

[sean]

On 13/10/2022 17:23, sean via Herefordshire wrote:
> 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.
>
oops that should be testdisk


> 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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