Having problem with stupidity.

[ingeborgdot]

I was working on getting music to a new computer on my network. I had gotten a bunch of songs to the new hard drive and set up WMP where to look for songs etc. I have moved all the folders of music etc. to another hard drive like I always do. Well, anyway I was looking in my music folder when I noticed I had a bunch of doubles now. Not thinking and probably over tired I must have pushed the wrong button because they all started going away and before I could do anything they were all GONE. None in the trash. Where did they go?

 

[sm625]

If you delete a file on a network drive, it is just gone. I've always wondered how you would go about undeleting them. Maybe there is some tool you can run on the host machine... I just dont know of any.

 

[lxskllr]

If you delete a file on a network drive, it is just gone. I've always wondered how you would go about undeleting them. Maybe there is some tool you can run on the host machine... I just dont know of any.

The TestDisk suite has file recovery. It's not the most user friendly thing, but it works. It's included in PartedMagic...

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

 

[MrColin]

If you plan on recovering deleted files it is imperative that you immediately unmount the drive in question before the OS overwrites the sectors with new data.

I had a similar issue once and used ddrescue which did find my deleted files and copy them to another partition. However, it did not recover the former filenames or even the file extensions or metadata (id3 tags), making it overly tedious for a large number of files.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I used a program and it found the songs. I had to do a lot of arranging as it had them scattered all around. I still have a bunch of hours of work left to organize them better again but at least I got them back. What a stupid bonehead mistake.