Dear all,
How can I restore the data inside the trash after make it empty ?
I need to restore an important folder from the trash and I can’t find it there 
I am using openSUSE11.1 (KDE)
respectfully
I don’t like your chances…
should I recover my hard disc ?
This situation is out of my league, but hopefully one of our file system gurus will come along with useful advice here. There is a real possibility that the disk space (where the files resided) will be overwritten anyway. Did you have a backup somewhere?
I’m trying to pick up the data, but i need almost a week to collect all of them !!
On 04/25/2011 01:06 PM, deano ferrari wrote:
>
> hopefully one of our file system gurus will come along with useful advice here.
i am not that guru, but until s/he comes along i advise hamad_morad85 to
NOT use the /home partition where the trash can resides …
by that i mean do not even log into the system…boot to and use
another operating system on the same machine or boot from a live CD
and use it to monitor this thread or use a different machine entirely…
> There is a real
> possibility that the disk space (where the files resided) will be
> overwritten anyway. Did you have a backup somewhere?
exactly!
to begin with the recovery of deleted files on a Linux system is not
nearly as easy as using DOS/Windows “undelete” utility (because of the
way the file system is designed) and at any moment the system my
‘decide’ to start using the space where the “important folder” and its
contents used to be…(past tense)…
the fact is that it may already be impossible to get all of the data
back…and each time you write anything to that partition the chances
of getting it all back decrease quickly…and, that is especially true
if the partition is near full (here i define ‘near full’ as anything
over about 80%)
–
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern
by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin Pi!
thank you all 
On 04/25/2011 01:36 PM, hamad morad85 wrote:
>
> I’m trying to pick up the data, but i need almost a week to collect all
> of them !!
important: boot from a live CD to “pick up the data” you find…and,
when you find it, copy it to a partition which does not contain /home/[you]/
–
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern
by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin Pi!
On 2011-04-25 12:36, hamad morad85 wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> How can I restore the data inside the trash after make it empty ?
> I need to restore an important folder from the trash and I can’t find
> it there
Fat chance.
Anyway… look here - ON ANOTHER COMPUTER, stop that one immediately.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I have heard of it, I know nothing about it, Data Recovery is the one I see recommended the most. I had to use Data Recovery once many years ago on a family members machine and recovered quite a bit, but it was a purchased version.
Try the Data Recovery and see if it finds anything (what have you got to lose? as of now you have already lost data) I would try the trial version and see if it recovers anything before thinking about buying the full package.If it does not recover anything then I would not buy it. Maybe then you might try the Data Recovery trial and see if that recovers anything.
Simply retrieve it from your latest computer backup.
Depending on how you did that backup, that will dictate exactly how to retrieve the deleted data.