Questions tagged [undelete]

I've accidentally removed all my home directory (don't judge!). My early search results led me to applications like extundelete and photorec. But the results were not acceptable. extundelete exits unexpectedly (without doing anything) and photorec…

I found a command online to clear the trash for you because I wanted to clear a file without doing it throught GUI. The command is sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* . I called it and saw the folder on my right monitor disapear. I looked on the left…

I've deleted accidentally files from my home folder and need to recover them. How can I do that? I need a recovering software that points specifically to the folder where the files were deleted and searches for the files there (not at the entire…

I have this 150Gb compressed file I accidentally deleted on an ext4 file system (running Ubuntu 16.04). Unfortunately, I only realized my mistake after a couple of days and about as many reboots. I burnt a LiveCD and tried this: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$…