Linux Mint 17 accident file deletion please help..

[demarpaint]

TIA-Is there an easy way to restore files from my second HDD that I deleted by accident? Disk /dev/sdb. I wiped out my Kmymoney data by mistake, and my backup to my thumb drive would still leave me with about an extra hour's work.

 

[javacontour]

How did you delete the files?

 

[Darwin1138]

You could use the program PHOTOREC, but the file extensions need to be supported. What are the extensions of the files you are looking for???

 

[demarpaint]

Originally Posted By: Darwin1138
You could use the program PHOTOREC, but the file extensions need to be supported. What are the extensions of the files you are looking for???


.kmy

 

[Darwin1138]

Yes, that extension is supported
You can download the program from synaptic, is under the name "Testdisk". Here is a manual

 

[demarpaint]

^^It didn't work. I used the thumb drive backup and killed an hour plugging in data that wasn't in the backup. Lesson learned.

 

[javacontour]

I asked how you deleted them because sometimes, if you use a file manager, it simply places your deleted files in some sort of trash folder.

Command line, much harder recovery.

Doesn't matter now, you manually re-created the missing data.

 

[demarpaint]

I tried TESTDISK later, which left me with a small nightmare. It found 75 folders with about 100 files/folder worth of recovered files. Then locked them so they couldn't be deleted unless I took ownership, or whatever Linux calls it via the Terminal. SCREW that, I went into my OS backup and did a restore which was a [censored] of a lot easier IMO than trying to take control of all those folders in a terminal and deleting them.

I learned a few good lessons and I'm up and running problem free again!