<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:11:30 -0400<BR>From: Gene Heskett <<A href="mailto:gene.heskett@verizon.net" ymailto="mailto:gene.heskett@verizon.net">gene.heskett@verizon.net</A>><BR>Subject: Re: Lost Files<BR>To: <A href="mailto:jolmstead1@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:jolmstead1@gmail.com">jolmstead1@gmail.com</A>, "Community assistance, encouragement, and<BR> advice for using Fedora." <<A href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</A>><BR>Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:200904240611.30464.gene.heskett@verizon.net" ymailto="mailto:200904240611.30464.gene.heskett@verizon.net">200904240611.30464.gene.heskett@verizon.net</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<BR><BR>On Friday 24 April 2009, jolmstead wrote:<BR>>I screwed up and now I am in a bad spot. I hope someone can help me. I am<BR>> pretty new to Linux. I am just taking my first course and setup a laptop<BR>> with Fedora Core 10 and Windows Vista dual booting.<BR>><BR>>Because of so many bugs and my lack of expertise my wife wanted me to move<BR>> all of her OpenOffice.org files from the Linux operating system to Vista. <BR>> So I thought I could just move everything from her home directory to the<BR>> /media/disk directory and all would be good.<BR>><BR>>Well, from the command prompt I created a folder in /media/disk and moved<BR>> everything there. Then I booted into Vista and the folder wasn't there. I<BR>> thought Windows maybe can't read the directory created by Linux so I went<BR>> back to Linux and to my surprise it was missing from there too! Now it's<BR>> nowhere to be found and I'm afraid everything she had is lost. Does anyone<BR>> know of a way I can retrieve those files?<BR><BR>I don't believe there is, unless someone has written an undelete for ext3.<BR><BR>/media is generally used as a mount point, and you must have a disk actually <BR>mounted there for the files to be non-volatile. I just did a similar thing <BR>with a new 1 TB disk, I thought I had it mounted to /mnt/amandatapes-1-T and <BR>ran my initialize script, then umounted it and mounted it where it really <BR>goes. Didn't work, it must not have been mounted correctly. Fortunately, <BR>there was nothing precious lost.<BR><BR>Basically, one should have a little paranoia and copy, then verify the copy is <BR>there before deleting the originals. Regardless of the OS.<BR><BR>>Thank you,<BR>>Jeremy<BR>><BR>><BR>>--<BR>>This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal<BR>> <A href="https://fcp.surfsite.org/" target=_blank>https://fcp.surfsite.org</A><BR>> <A href="https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=340913&topic_i" target=_blank>https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=340913&topic_i</A><BR>>d=70420&forum=10#forumpost340913 If you think, this is spam, please report<BR>> this to <A href="mailto:webmaster@fcp.surfsite.org" ymailto="mailto:webmaster@fcp.surfsite.org">webmaster@fcp.surfsite.org</A> and/or blame <A href="mailto:jolmstead1@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:jolmstead1@gmail.com">jolmstead1@gmail.com</A>.<BR><BR><BR>At last there is one thing you can try to retrieve your wife's files:</DIV> <DIV>unmount the hard disk from your laptop and put it into a mobile hard disk box,</DIV> <DIV>then on aother computer use data recovery tools like "EasyRecovery" to get your lost date back,</DIV> <DIV>Good luck!</DIV></div><br> <hr size=1><a href="http://cn.rd.yahoo.com/mail_cn/tagline/card/*http://card.mail.cn.yahoo.com/"> 好玩贺卡等你发，邮箱贺卡全新上线！</a></body></html>