How to recover deleted files in Ubuntu #12

When a file is deleted from your computer it is not really deleted. it still exists and it's possible to recover even if you empty the trash. In this video I demonstrate deleting files and recovering them using Testdisk (Photorec) in Ubuntu.




- This will work as long as the space where those files are was not overwritten -

Comments and suggestions are always welcomed.

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[fscodelaro]

great tutorial, saved me a lot of data, thanks for posting!!

[amzertech]

@fscodelaro That's great! I'm glad I could help :)

[Fixxxer50]

does photorec only recover images, ie - jpeg, png etc or any kind of files like maybe a doc file. Thanks for sharing !

[amzertech]

It does recover all types of files not just images.

[ravejunkie]

would this work on a winblowz7 drive or xp bootable drive. that it is a full separate HDD ?

[amzertech]

Yes it should work. :)

[ErichLancaster]

Which theme do you use in your ubuntu? It looks beautiful

[taith2]

OK everything is great, but how do I recover files from 1TB HDD?

I only deleted one 600mb folder

and doesn't need rest of 400GB garbage

especially when my second disk is only 180GB and have 1GB space left

[billyedtimmyable]

For some reason, Photorec seems to only recover 'jpg' but not 'JPG' (my sony camera generates the upper-case version). Any hints on working around that?

[PandafulCupcake]

I really needed this. Thank you so much!

[parosg44]

hello man , thanks of the video. i did something very stupid. i reinstalled ubuntu but i had forgotten to backup my bookmarks from firefox and chromium. is there a way to recover specific files. like for example, the bookmarks were stored as .json files in chromium. so is there a way to tell the program, recover only these types of files? please help me, i dont know what to do :-(

[aconialove]

Thank You!

[dodge310]

thank you. excellant tutorial very appreciated.

[tonka989]

Is it possible to recover files deleted from a USB stick by replacing them with files of the same name?

[iinnddiikkaa]

Done this. But cant delete the recovered files folder.

[westsidemothafucka]

can i find my deleted saved games in gta san andreas in this way?