How to recover deleted files with Photorec - Ubuntu
Why Ask Ubuntu recommends it
Ask Ubuntu answerers point people to it as a visual walkthrough of PhotoRec when someone has deleted or lost files and needs to recover them.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2012 to 2015.
What it is
A short screencast from 2010 showing how to use the free PhotoRec tool to undelete files from a drive, demonstrated on Ubuntu. The presenter walks through recovering photos, movies, music and documents, and notes the tool also exists for Windows and Mac.
What people said
Recommends santosamaru · 2012-08 · Ask Ubuntu · on “How to recover or create deleted 'Documents' folder in Home folder?”
have you try PhotoRec(PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs ) ? here some turtorial video [LINK] [this video]
Recommends Naveen · 2014-05 · Ask Ubuntu · on “File recovery of windows after installing ubuntu”
You must be aware of these facts: Try to preserve the disk space you have, otherwise you will loose the recoverable portion You can use a powerful tool called photorec to recover your files. The files must be recovered to a another storage device. Here is a tutorial on how to use photorec. [this video]
Recommends Bilal · 2015-10 · Ask Ubuntu · on “How to retrieve my Desktop folder and its contents”
The files were unlinked by the rm command. The data is still sitting there on your disk, but the link to them has been removed. Therefore stop using the machine immediately as the more you use it, the more the unlinked files get destroyed... Please use photorec : you can find more information about it here [LINK] and here [LINK] , and this [this video] video shows you how to use it. For more info : Where do files go when the rm command is issued ? [LINK]