[lbo-talk] Re: Hard-drive search tool

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Oct 14 15:03:50 PDT 2004


Yes, so far as I know, the data isn't actually lost, just pointers to it. There are disk repair utilities that can help you recover...and also computer folks that know how. Don't despair. It think it's fixable.

Joanna

Chuck Grimes wrote:


>``Funny you should mention this as I installed the applet on my lone Win32
>box not three hours ago...'' .d.
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>Speaking of hard drives, guess what I just did?
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>I just typed `rm -R *' thinking I was in the ~/cgrimes/.netscape/cache
>directory---cleaning out web garbage.
>
>I was in my ~/cgrimes directory, just above it.
>
>So after watching the disk drive light flashing just a bit too long, I
>hit ctl-C to halt. Looking at my home directory I was staggered to
>find three directories left out of about six or seven. The deleted
>directories included writing projects, oral transcripts,
>resumes, portfolios---all the usual critical
>stuff. I have almost all of this backed up on paper. But...
>
>I realize this is imbecilic to ask, but is there any recovery
>available?
>
>CG
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