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I was installing notepad++ on my Ubuntu 16. After the installation process I clicked on the app and it showed me a black screen and didn't do anything at all, so I pressed and held the power button of my PC and restarted it.

Now all the folders in my directory lost all their files and I don't know how because I didn't run any command like rm.

What should I do?

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  • open up a terminal ctrl-alt-t ... issue pwd ... are you in your home directory ? should be, tell us otherwise ... issue ls -la are your folders there ?
    – Scott Stensland
    Sep 26, 2017 at 13:29
  • just tried that, it said command not found
    – utfrank
    Sep 26, 2017 at 13:53
  • Your main screen is GUI or CLI? Does it ask for auth? Can you do it?
    – Redbob
    Sep 26, 2017 at 14:35
  • here is an alternative way to reach a command prompt ... read and understand ALL of below before issuing anything otherwise you will not be able to return to this screen without rebooting ... issue this ctrl-alt-F2 to goto the console ... do a dir listing ... ls -la ... are your folders there ? ... to return to normal screen issue ctrl-alt-F7
    – Scott Stensland
    Sep 26, 2017 at 14:40

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