I'm in a bind and still a linux newbie. I've read some posts about lost folders but they seem to be different situations. Earlier today, I right-clicked on a folder and selected "move to" and selected a destination. Afterwards, I realized that the folder had just disappeared. If i use terminal and type 'locate folder', it indicates '/home/steve/Documents/folder'. I don't understand how it should display that if the folder is gone. If I change directories to "Documents" and hit "ls", folder is not there (and I can't see folder in Documents via the GUI either). If I try to 'locate' or 'find' any of the files that were in the folder, it says they do not exist. Unfortunately, it's a very important folder which was not yet backed-up. I was tempted to try photorec but wanted to seek some advice before trying anything. The file types lost would be pdf's, ods's (Libre office calc) odt's (Libre office write) and odp's (Libre Office Impress). I have rebooted since this happened but I haven't saved any new files. Any suggestions as to what I should try? Is photorec a good start?. I would really appreciate some guidance as this wasn't data for "learning" linux ... this was important stuff for my work. Thank you
Edit: I should mention that the destination is formatted NTFS ... I'm pretty sure I have "moved" files there before and I have definitely "saved" files directly there
ls -l --all
instead of plainls
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