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after weekend's maintenance, I have lost ALL my documents, ALL my pictures, ALL my Audacity folders. It looks like a clean install. Where is my data? What just happened?

Asked by gary nelson

I applied distributed maintenance over the weekend. I noticed a new kernel come down along with a new firefox along with other maintenance. Today, after a cold boot, I find I have lost ALL my documents, ALL my pictures, ALL my music and ALL my Audacity projects.

In short, I have lost every piece of user data I had on my machine.

In addition I have lost all my bookmarks from Firefox. My machine looks like I have clean installed a new release.

I am absolutely livid. I applied maintenance - I did NOT request an upgrade release an would not have applied it if I could have stopped it. I have loaded maintenance release kernels before without completely corruputing my machine. If I can't get this resolved,this will be a deal breaker for me and Linux.

I am pretty sure that the maintenance did not re-format the partition, so I assume my data is still out there someplace. Can anyone offer any advice or direction to recover literaly years worth of data?

I can't believe I'm the only person to report this. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Gary Nelson

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Use your backups..

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mfauzirahman (mfauzirahman) said : 		#2

never happen to me..
always back up in case this thing happen.

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rumata (bonova) said : 		#3

Setup crashed while upgrading 11.04 to 12.04 from USB flash.
So, no system exists now and the only way for me is installing with erasure eveone /* dirs, including /home even if I rename it. Isn't this stuped? What is the cause of such a dire need of killing all the filesystem? Why?

'Cos I've cp all files through WiFi network... 2.5Mb/sec... all 250Gbyte. It's just a wasted time. What an incredible stupidity...

PS. site users.bigpond.net.au is down.

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