I deleted a huge folder containing mp3 & mp4 songs by mistake. I thought it will be in trash but when I opened it, the folder wasn't there but when I opened the properties of trash I saw that it contained +2000 folders of 55 GB. The files are not visible somehow. Can you please tell me how to recover it? I don't want this huge loss of my favourite items.
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1How did you delete them? and do you have a backup at all?– TimJul 30, 2014 at 18:10
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It might be that the Trash folder is now so large it takes a long time to load - so you could open the Trash folder and see if it loads– WilfJul 30, 2014 at 18:11
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2@Wilf, sorry too used to chat!– TimJul 30, 2014 at 18:13
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1@Wilf sometimes a dialouge says "This file is to large to be moved to trash, do you want to permanently delete it". Did this pop up @Annie?– TimJul 30, 2014 at 18:17
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1Nautilus is the the default file explorer.– DanJul 30, 2014 at 18:42
1 Answer
You can view hidden files in Nautilus using the keyboard combo ctrl + h. Or using the menu: select View->Show Hidden Files.
If the files were deleted from an external drive they may be on that drive in a .trash
hidden directory
As a ditch effort; if you know the name of a file (a good unique name) you can use the following to search the whole filesystem
sudo find / -iname "*<good file name>*"
<good file name>
should be replace with a filename but keep the *
on each side
That will take a while to run.