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Recover item deleted from trash folder

Asked by Todd Gage

I accidently placed a folder to the trash. Later, I emptied the trash without checking its contents. (I do not think I will do that again.)
Is there any way to recover items once trash has been emptied. From my profession, I know they should still exist until overwritten. Note: The folder was originally located on a flash drive plugged into my system.

If this can be done, I would be just thrilled. Thanks for your assistance with this matter.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

I think the answer is probably not especially if it was deleted from your hard drive

When you delete a file in ext3 or ext4 I understand it not only marks the space as free to be overwritten but zeros the inode info as well.

There are some tools that may help but there is no substitute for a good backup system.

Try typing

ext3 recovery tools

or

ext4 recovery tools

into Google.

Alternatively if it was from your flash drive and that's a FAT partition try

sudo apt-get install testdisk
testdisk

and finally take a look here

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

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