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artie
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Lost folder and Files

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Hey Guys
I was up all night working on a project for work which I was saving into a folder called untitledfolder, In the Projects folder, in the Home directory. Unfortunately my cat jumped onto the keyboard and while I tried to get her off I double tapped and slid the touchpad while the folder was highlighted. When I got the cat off, my folder was no where to be found. I have tried the Tracker tool and Gnome search to no avail. The files I am looking for have .flv and jpg or jpeg extentions. I have searched all folders in Projects and cannot find it. Is there a better search function in the terminal? I tried various ls commands but nothing :(
Any help would be appreciated I'd hate to start the project over.

Thanks in advance
Artie

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900i
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Re: Lost folder and Files

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Go to terminal and enter

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sudo updatedb
Then when that command has finished enter

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locate *.flv

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locate *.jpg

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locate *.jpeg
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artie
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Re: Lost folder and Files

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I tried 900i's method and it only pulled up two .flv files and three .jpg .jpeg files even though there are more than that visible in my home folder. Thanks 900i I appreciate it. Any more suggestions?
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Re: Lost folder and Files

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Could you have accidentally pressed the Delete button which deletes them permanently rather than putting them in the Deleted Items folder?

If so then you'd need some file recovery program, I don't know any off the top of my head but I'm sure someone does.
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Re: Lost folder and Files

Post by artie »

Thanks Gibbs1984,
Yeah I'm not sure if my cat was standing on the delete button but I guess I'll try and pull the hard drive out, hook it up to another computer and run PhotoRec which has a nice set of parameters for searching lost files. Thank you so much for the help.
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