[svlug] oops, undoing rm on a sub-dir on Acomdata external HD

[Brandon Trussell]

That's strange.  I don't know what would have caused them to be empty

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hi
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Brandon Trussell <brandon2k3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> When I delete files from an external drive, using nautilus, it moves them
>> to a .Trash directory at the root of the mount point.
>>
>> Ex:
>> If the drive is mounted at /media/disk, there is a hidden folder created
>> there by the file explorer called, .Trash.
>
>
> I did find files there, but they were empty files.  As luck would have it,
> I did find the files that I had deleted elsewhere in a backup file, but I
> didn't have access to that backup dir at the time that I wrote the initial
> email.  It would be good to know how to recover files in case this happens
> again.  So the question is:  how to recover files if the files in .Trash are
> empty files?
>



-- 
Brandon
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