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Lost All my data

Asked by wisdomnko

I was logged in working on my laptop. Then, it just froze up. LibreOffice Writer was not responding, the mouse was not responding. So I had booted the machine. When it came up, I logged in and there was absolutely nothing all my folder are empty. What is bothering me is that instead of seeing Home folder I see guest-kAwooJ. Could someone have hacked my computer?

How do I go about retrieving my lost data?

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wisdomnko (wis3634) said : 		#1

I have checked installed software such as skype, Dropbox etc. All seem to be there but I can not see them. I can see any of my data. Could there be some bug of some sort?

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wisdomnko (wis3634) said : 		#2

I clicked on software center and click on Dropbox. It gave a message that Dropbox is running for an unexpected location.?. How can a hard boot cause all data on my machine to disappear except for Ubuntu?

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wisdomnko (wis3634) said : 		#3

What does this mean from my debuglog "NPP_GetValue is called"

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Anton Kanishchev (ak12-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Can you boot from a live cd of ubuntu and check the contents of your hdd, first look in /home . is your data there?

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Anton Kanishchev (ak12-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

RE: comment #3 . Looks like a bug, possibly linked to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/986841

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wisdomnko (wis3634) said : 		#6

I am trying to access my old back up files instead I see a folder by the name of guest-PMmwL3. What is going on?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Your backups will ensure data integrity. you could also boot liveCD and mount your partitions there

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