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Hard disk Crashed, how to recover emails

Asked by Suparshwa Shah

My, hard disk have crashed, i am not able to boot from my hard disk, currently i am operating pc from pendrive, now i had important emails in .evolution folder.

Though, i am not able to boot from my HDD but i am still able to VIEW folders, i am also able to see .evolution folder which i tried to copy to my home directory,

But it is giving security error, maybe i am not owner of it.

Can anyone suggest method that i can copy that folder, its very important for me,.

Thankyou in Advance.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#1

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Suparshwa Shah
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> New question #97338 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/97338
>
> My, hard disk have crashed, i am not able to boot from my hard disk, currently i am operating pc from pendrive, now i had important emails in .evolution folder.
>
> Though, i am not able to boot from my HDD but i am still able to VIEW folders, i am also able to see .evolution folder which i tried to copy to my home directory,
>
> But it is giving security error, maybe i am not owner of it.
>
> Can anyone suggest method that i can copy that folder, its very important for me,.
>
> Thankyou in Advance.
>
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Sorry to hear about that crash, now what you want to do is boot from
the live cd, then go to /home and you should be able to copy and paste
the folder to a flash drive.

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Vikram Dhillon

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only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
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Suparshwa Shah (suparshwa-great) said : 		#2

Thanks,

that didn't worked
I was not allowed to as i was not the same user.

I used command by logging as root (su)
chmod -R a+rwx /media/5f6e5b3e-a172-43ed-bb8a-01694dc604de/*

This changed permission for all contents of my hard drive.

Then i was able to copy .evolution folder.

Thanks you for participating.
Good day.