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How to recover deleted files?

Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu? If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/...
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Ubuntu restore deleted files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Best tool to recover removed files I just run command: rm -r ~/.config/ ~/.cache/ and all my files from computer are gone. How I can restore them?
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How to recover a removed folder instead of recovering the whole partition [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: How to recover deleted files? Best tool to recover removed files I accidentally removed my project under the www folder. I didn't use a version control system (I know, that'...
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Is there any recovery software available for ext4?

Well, I have accidentally deleted my Ubuntu drive. I just want to recover all the contents of /home. Is there a way to do it? I referred to foremost, where I need to specify the extensions of files. ...
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How to recover from 'sudo rm -rf' command?

By mistake, I ended up executing rm -rf / command from sudo on my laptop which erased many files before it stopped. Now when I restarted my system , it drops to this prompt: GRUB rescue>_ I am ...
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Have I lost my entire Windows drive and all the files?

I previously had Heron 8.04 installed. Today I decided to upgrade. During the partition phase of the install of 10.10 it asked me what portion of the drive I should use. There were a few options: ...
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Recover 1TB disk erased with startup disk creator

Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation ...
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How do I completely format my disk?

I want to format because my laptop has stopped connecting to my wireless connection and hopefully this will fix it.
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Lost some files after I cut and pasted in Ubuntu 12.04

I cut some files to paste it somewhere else and when I was in the location to paste, the paste option was disabled. I go back to where it was (the source from where I cut the folders) and the files ...
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Deleted unintentionally on your local host? Deleted on the cloud?

That doesn't sound right to me.. No way to restore the files?
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Recovering data from /

I accidentally installed Ubuntu to one of my data drives from Windows. The drive was a NTFS drive and contained about 80 GB of important data. The size of the drive is 110 GB. Its new file system is ...
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Any way to recover data on a re-installed Ubuntu OS on same partition? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Formatted and lost 6 years worth of photo memories.. any way to get this back? Best tools to recover removed files How do I recover Ubuntu partition after computer failure ...
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i have deleted my movies please help [duplicate]

I have mistakenly deleted my movies using root rm -rf /home/username/Videos/movies. How can i recover it, I have already installed extundelete and am using ext4 and its mounted at /dev/sda
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Retrieve data from a FreeSpace volume [previously ext4 volume]

Morning, Afternoon, Evening, any thing you wish. I'm using an HP-ProBook 4540S 750 Gb HDD 4 Gb of memory Intel Core i3-3110M CPU 2.40GHz x 4 I'm a software developper,so I use to install 2 Ubuntu ...
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