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so, I wanted to rename the user and its corresponding home folder following the instructions mentioned here How do I change my username?. However, what this made me is to rename the account, not the folder, and apparently I deleted all the contents of the home folder! Now I am also not able to log into the account through the ubuntu 11.04 desktop version and frankly I am a bit lost on how to solve this issue cause I do have a valuable data in the home folder.

ls -la of the folder:

dr-x------ 3 sheldon sheldon 4096 Mar  5 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root    root    4096 Mar  5 12:04 ..
-rw------- 1 root    root    2013 Mar  4 17:44 .bash_history

Any ideas? How can I restore everything as it was and get my data back?

Thanks a milion!

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user254982
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  • What do you mean by "ls -la of the folder"? What folder? /home? If you deleted your user folder, the data is gone, unless you want to dive into data recovery but that might be a bit over your head if your Linux skills are only elementary. – pzkpfw Mar 05 '14 at 11:51

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If all that you've done is rename the account, the home folder may still be there under /home/oldusername/.

To check this, open a terminal and enter sudo ls -al /home/oldusername/.

If you see your 'lost' files, enter sudo cp -r /home/oldusername/* /home/newusername/

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You have to make a recovery for your deleted files. I advise you to use R-studio for Linux which is a free version of R-studio data recovery tools.

R-Studio for Linux recovers files:

  • Deleted from the computer and emptied from the Trash
  • Corrupted due to a virus, power failure or sudden shutdown
  • From disks that have been Re-formatted to the same file system or a different file system
  • Damaged and have bad sectors-R-Studio for Linux creates an image of the entire disk and recovers it from there to prevent further physical damage to the disk

You can download from here.

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