Help i deleted all my photos by accident

[africanlion]

Hi
I had created a folder called Assorted in the pictures folder and in this i ha ddifferent folders for family, friends etc. I was cleaning up the photos and deleting ones i no longer wanted and it seems i must have deleted the Assrted folder itself which had all my photos. Normally when i delete stuff i normally choose the Delete option rather than move to Recycle bin and naturally i have checked Recylcle bin and there is nothing

I had like 700 photos there all very important. How can i recover them. i have not switched off computer or done much since doing so incase it helps

I am in tears right now please help. is there like a system restore in linux or what can i do

[nomko]

As long you didn't do anything as you say, there's a very big chance to get the most photo's back. Try this program: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec.

There's a possibility that you don't get all your photo's back when parts of the disc are overwritten by i.e. installing a program.

[Xheralt]

what filesystem is the partition that the photos were on? IF ext3, files are supposed to be hard to recover, but I had pretty good luck with the ext3grep command line utility. DO AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE (or better yet, nothing) on the computer until you can install and use the recovery software you settle on. Linux is a bit more aggressive about reusing disk space than Windoze is, you could corrupt the deleted files.

[nomko]

@africanlion:

Please do not multi-/crosspost messages since this works confusing and fuzzy. I reported this post as multi-/crosspost viewtopic.php?f=48&p=655092#p655092. Please stick to this post as you get already answers here.

[africanlion]

what filesystem is the partition that the photos were on? IF ext3, files are supposed to be hard to recover, but I had pretty good luck with the ext3grep command line utility. DO AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE (or better yet, nothing) on the computer until you can install and use the recovery software you settle on. Linux is a bit more aggressive about reusing disk space than Windoze is, you could corrupt the deleted files.

I dont know what filesystem. How do i find this out please so i can report back to you

[Flemur]

By definition, all important files which aren't easy to replicate have backups, so the easiest way to recover your files is from your backups - more than one copy, of course - of the files.

Show FS type (probably ext4):
$ mount
or
$ df -T
(it confusingly calls NTFS "fuseblk")

If your partition isn't a separate "/home", then it's probably "/".

[africanlion]

By definition, all important files which aren't easy to replicate have backups, so the easiest way to recover your files is from your backups - more than one copy, of course - of the files.

Show FS type (probably ext4):
$ mount
or
$ df -T
(it confusingly calls NTFS "fuseblk")

If your partition isn't a separate "/home", then it's probably "/".

I have got only linux Mint on the pc and no other partition. I have tried running these $ mount and $ df -T and it says command not found to both
Ihave never done a backup on the system in the couple of months i have had it so will there be a backup somewhere and how di i retrieve it?

[africanlion]

As long you didn't do anything as you say, there's a very big chance to get the most photo's back. Try this program: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec.

There's a possibility that you don't get all your photo's back when parts of the disc are overwritten by i.e. installing a program.

It has worked. You are a genius my friend and may your life be long and happy. God bless you

Cheers :thumbsup:

[nomko]

It has worked. You are a genius my friend and may your life be long and happy. God bless you
Cheers :thumbsup:

Well.... I'm not a genius, i'm just a Mint user who helps other Mint users with their issues like many others on this forum.

Nice to hear that it worked for you!