recovering deleted files

[rikona]

Hello Ric,

Sunday, March 10, 2013, 5:10:12 PM, Ric wrote:

> On 03/10/2013 07:03 PM, rikona wrote:

>> Any suggestions re fixing this would be much appreciated. 

> you do know that writing or installing anything will write straight
> over what the disk considers "empty" and that data is a goner?

Yes - I shut down the box as soon as I saw there was a problem - I
didn't want the comp to keep writing stuff while I was thinking. It
was not mounted for the testdisk copy operation, so no writes there.
But, my 'helper' accidently mounted it when we tried another
non-destructive copy op, and I lost more then too, I'm sure. That is
NOT the time for ANY accidents!!

> I've done that myself, sudo rm -rf * when I wasn't in the directory
> I thought I was in...more than once I hasten to add. Yessir, it's
> like the sky cracked open when it happened. I feel your pain, Ric

I'm sure all of of us have shared that pain at one time or another...

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 rikona