I used youtube-dl to download a video. It saved in my Home directory. Then I did sudo mv file_name /Videos but it's not in my Videos directory and also not in Home. I am using sudo find / but it's taking forever. How can I get the file back? It's a whole 2GB and I don't want to download it again!
1 Answer
Your command was wrong. You moved the file to the /
directory and renamed it to Videos
.
You can revert it by running
sudo mv /Videos ~/file_name
For the future, do not use sudo for moving your files and do not add /
before the directory name.
The correct command to move a file from your home directory to Videos is
sudo mv file_name Videos/
without /
, or better
sudo mv file_name ~/Videos/
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