Removing Photorec recovered files

Question

I have number of folders (over 60 folders) located in my file system folder and two folders with lock symbol on folder icon recup_dir.1, recup_dir.2 and photorec.ses. I have removed testdisk using Synaptic Package Manager. But these folders are still there. Any help?

Answer 1

When you run photorec / testdisk, you need root access to use them. Because of this, you end up with the folders that are created in a Read only state. You don't have permission to write or delete them.

What I normally do is one of the following actions:

• Press ALT+F2 and type: gksu nautilus

  

  Then navigate to where your folders are and DELETE the folders.

• In the terminal go to where the folders are and do the following:

  chmod 777 FOLDER/ -R

  assuming FOLDER is the main recovery folder and inside of it are all the recovery folders. You can change the 777 value to a 700 if you do not feel safer from others looking on the computer ^^.

If the folders are not inside a custom (Eg: home/recoveryfolder/recup_dir.X....) then you must apply the chmod to each folder seperately or do something like this in home:

chmod 777 recup_dir* -R

This should bring back the access permission to all recup_dir folder for you.

Answer 2

force remove the folders as root.

sudo rm -rf recup*

this will remove all directories starts with 'recup'.