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How to recover files that were lost due to a crash during a "move-files" operation

Asked by Jolexin

I moved a dozen of photos (jpg files) from one hard disk (the memory card of my camera) to an other one (the hard disk of my PC). Just at *that* time my PC switched off itself. After reboot I saw the files neither in the source nor in the target folder.

Is there any (Nautilus) cache where I could find the lost photos?
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Lenovo Thinkpad SL510 Notebook Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5870
BIOS V1.12 2009-10-19
Linux 3.2.0-53-generic-pae,
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try foremost or scalpel on the source. If power is an issue I can recommend a cheap UPS to make sure things are ok in the event of power loss.

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Best David Pires (slickymaster) said : 		#2

Another very good option is Photorec. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

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Jolexin (jolexin-lin) said : 		#3

Yes, with photorec I could indeed recover lost photo-files. Thanks to everyone who offered help!