Recovering lost/deleted files

[nimmonika]

Hi,

My problem is a peculiar one. About 3 weeks back, I was trying to copy something (internal folder to folder copy) using the copy facility available with Fedora. I guess I must have accidentally selected my own profile and suddenly I find my profile in another subfolder of my original profile. I promptly deleted the copied profile. Unfortunately for me in that process, I lost some of the files that I badly needed. Please can someone advise if there are any chances (not that I can think of anyways) at all of getting the file back. It has some of my important PhD stuff anf is quite critcial.

Thanks

[dishawjp]

Nimmonika,

This isn't an easy thing to do unfortunately. The fact that you've waited for three weeks to begin the recovery process doesn't help matters, but for what it's worth, check out the following:

http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html

Good luck!

Jim Dishaw

[Ihsahn]

I hope your are not using ext3 file systems because, if I remember correctly, what is deleted on those file system is really deleted indeed (no way to recover data :-()