I deleted a huge folder containing mp3 & mp4 songs by mistake. I thought it will be in trash but when I opened it, the folder wasn't there but when I opened the properties of trash I saw that it contained +2000 folders of 55 GB. The files are not visible somehow. Can you please tell me how to recover it? I don't want this huge loss of my favourite items.
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1How did you delete them? and do you have a backup at all? – Tim Jul 30 '14 at 18:10
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It might be that the Trash folder is now so large it takes a long time to load - so you could open the Trash folder and see if it loads – Wilf Jul 30 '14 at 18:11
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2@Wilf, sorry too used to chat! – Tim Jul 30 '14 at 18:13
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1@Wilf sometimes a dialouge says "This file is to large to be moved to trash, do you want to permanently delete it". Did this pop up @Annie? – Tim Jul 30 '14 at 18:17
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Does anything appear in `ls -lh ~/.local/share/Trash/files/`? – Wilf Jul 30 '14 at 18:19
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I deleted by mistake. :( – Annie Jul 30 '14 at 18:30
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@Wilf No no such thing appeared. – Annie Jul 30 '14 at 18:31
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What is Nautilius? How can i use it? – Annie Jul 30 '14 at 18:41
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1Nautilus is the the default file explorer. – Dan Jul 30 '14 at 18:42
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Where do i find it from? – Annie Jul 30 '14 at 18:44
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The program that you deleted it from, that is nautilus. You probably call it files or something? – Tim Jul 30 '14 at 18:50
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Can you press ctrl+alt+t? – Tim Jul 30 '14 at 18:52
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when i press ctrl+alt+t a command screen appears what next – Annie Jul 30 '14 at 19:05
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Data recovered. Thank you for the assistance. :) – Annie Jul 30 '14 at 19:49
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You can view hidden files in Nautilus using the keyboard combo ctrl + h. Or using the menu: select View->Show Hidden Files.
If the files were deleted from an external drive they may be on that drive in a .trash hidden directory
As a ditch effort; if you know the name of a file (a good unique name) you can use the following to search the whole filesystem
sudo find / -iname "*<good file name>*"
<good file name> should be replace with a filename but keep the * on each side
That will take a while to run.
Dan
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