Questions about the loss and recovery of data.
Questions tagged [data-loss]
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files not visible on my seagate expnsion drive
i am using a 1 TB expansion drive and it has 643.6 GB data used as the properties window says, but there is a folder in there is around 500 GB data which i can not see. It's properties are showing contents : nothing.
Now when i am connecting the…
gurmeet
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Restoring from Lost+Found
I did the most stupid thing. I was resizing the home partition with GParted and decided to cancel the process after a few minutes. Now the whole partition is in the Lost+Found folder. All folders and files are completely jumbled. It looks like the…
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Lost all the directories with sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* in ubuntu 16
I was unable to empty my trash so I used the below command:
sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*
and it deleted everything from all the directories, home and downloads
Can any one please help?
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All files vanish in /home/user directory Ubuntu 20.04 (dual boot with Windows 11)
I recently had a bug in Ubuntu 20.04
all files vanished or deleted in /home/user, except the directories where kept in place
Logged out of my Google/Microsoft accounts, so I had to sign in again after restarting
Terminal user color changed from…
AlexLee
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how can i recover my loss data?
I have migrated from Windows 7 to Ubuntu just yesterday. Windows 7 was in my C: drive. I did not realise that if I wipe Windows 7 and install Ubuntu, Ubuntu would be installed in the C: drive only. So I didn't make any backups, and I deleted Windows…
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Lost files - no explanation and no simple fix
So, for no apparent reason all files from Documents, Music, Pictures and Video just disappeared. The answers I have seen for similar questions verge on advanced programming and even then don't seem to provide a concrete solution. I was really hoping…
Mark D
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