recovering deleted files

[Conny Enström]

2013-03-09 03:08, rikona skrev:
> I just did something stupid! I was cleaning up a very large number of
> what I thought were duplicate files and putting them where it made
> more sense. BUT - I had 2 folders in different parts of the tree with
> the same name. Under those 2 folders I had what i thought was a link
> to the other location. So, I had 2 folders and 2 links with the same
> name. As I was moving files, I noticed that a large number were
> reported as already being in the destination folder, and I thought
> they were duplicates - so I shift-deleted them [not to trash] as I
> usually do. Trash is empty.
>
> BUT it turns out I had set up circular links back to the same folder.
> This was the reason why there were so many apparent 'duplicates'
> reported - they were not really dupes because they were already there,
> so to speak. When I finally went to the folder to see the results of
> my extensive moves, the folder was essentially almost empty. I had
> just lost a huge number of extremely important files - months worth of
> work....
>
> So - what can be done to recover them. The comp is still on and I am
> not going to touch it, which might overwrite the deleted files. What
> can I do to get back these files?
>
> Thanks much, in advance...
>
>   rikona
>
>

sudo apt-get install testdisk

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download