Recovering Open Document Format Files and OLE in one go

Question

Is there a recovery program that recovers both OLE files (MS Office files, i.e. .doc, .docx) and Open Document Format files (Libre/Open Office ones, i.e .odt) on Ubuntu 12.04?

I deleted these files with Shift+Delete.

Answer 1

You could try foremost as described in the Ubuntu Community Help Wiki.

sudo apt-get install foremost

Assumed your deleted files are on /media/USB/ and you want to restore them to ~/Desktop/recovery/ run:

sudo foremost -t ole,zip -i /media/USB -o ~/Desktop/recovery

After that change ownership of that folder by

sudo chown -R user:user ~/Desktop/recovery/

whereat user is your username.

From the mentioned wiki page: "zip: Note is will extract .jar files as well because they use a similar format. Open Office docs are just zip’d XML files so they are extracted as well. These include SXW, SXC, SXI, and SX? for undetermined OpenOffice files."