Saturday, November 12, 2011

Retrieving deleted files from Ubuntu

If files are deleted from GUI by pressing the DELETE key, then those files can be recovered without the need for any additional recovery tools like Scalpel.

Linux version can be obtained by
uname -a

My Linux version is ubuntu 2.6.32-34-generic - Lucid (10.04).

In this linux version, when files/folders are deleted from GUI (by pressing the DELETE key - not sure about SHIFT+DELETE), the contents go to the Trash folder. The path for this trash folder is
~/.local/share/Trash/files

You should be able to find the deleted contents there.


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