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I have been running a tool which is saved in the Documents directory of my desktop computer. Suddenly my computer became unresponsive. So I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete and then restarted the computer. After restarting my computer, I could not access my Documents directory, even though it was visible in my Home directory. I have typed the following command on my terminal and found the Documents directory, but I could not copy or move it:

ga@ga214:~$ locate Documents
/home/ga/Documents
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/gnome-documents:org.gnome.Documents.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/utopia-documents:UtopiaDocuments.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/UtopiaDocuments.png
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.portal.Documents.service

I could see the directory inside the Home directory as shown in the following screenshot:

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I have all my important data in Documents. If it is possible, please help me restore the directory with my data.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Kumar
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  • please provide us with the output of: ls -lia ~/Documents – Giorgos Saridakis Mar 02 '21 at 10:51
  • @GiorgosSaridakis , ls -lia ~/Documents command output as follows, ga@ga214:~$ ls -lia ~/Documents ls: cannot access '/home/ga/Documents': No such file or directory – Kumar Mar 02 '21 at 11:03
  • Also of note 16.04 is EOL in April time to think about upgrade. – David Mar 02 '21 at 12:39
  • @David, is it possible to recover my files or not? – Kumar Mar 02 '21 at 12:55
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    your locate is responding with a probably out-of-date database. use the locate command again after-> sudo updatedb . also try the ls once more with sudo ls -lia /home/ga/Documents. if you don't have anything, the folder has been deleted. – Giorgos Saridakis Mar 02 '21 at 15:06
  • What you see on the right side of your file browser are bookmarks that you added, that does not mean that their location exists. Also what Giorgos said, locate is using a database that might be outdatet, better use find ~ -type d -name Documents. If you click on "Home", you can check if a directory "Documents" is in there. I guess, ypi maybe accidently moved it somewhere (then you need to find it), or maybe you pressed Shift+Delete (then you deleted it for good and you must use recovery software). – pLumo Mar 03 '21 at 07:16

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