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How to Restore photos on SD card [duplicate]

I deleted 40 some photos from my SD card in my camera. I thought I saved them on my desktop. Using 12.04 LTS. Is there a way to restore the photos?? My wife is pissed. Nothing has been over ...
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Accidentally deleted a folder [duplicate]

I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 and accidentally deleted a folder using Shift+Del. Does anyone have any idea how to recover the folder?
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Best tool to recover removed files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to recover deleted files? Using Ubuntu 10.10, I have a startup script that automatically removes my 'working directory'. This is a simple folder on my Desktop where I ...
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Can I recover a file from /dev/null? [duplicate]

mv ~ /dev/null moves my home directory to a black hole. Can I recover my home directory from /dev/null?
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Can I recover a deleted file? [duplicate]

I have mistakenly deleted a file via while connected ssh. How I can recover that file or, if ubuntu has something like trash bin or so ?
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2 answers
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how to restore data after running rm? [duplicate]

I accidently ran sudo rm * I thought I was in an unimportant subfolder. The result is that I deleted some very important files. Is there any way to get my data back?
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Restore Direcory/files after rm -rf [duplicate]

I've accidentally deleted a project directory from my Ubuntu with rm -rf. is it possible to restore them somehow?
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2 votes
4 answers
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My hard disk has been formatted accidently [duplicate]

I chose the second option for installing Ubuntu because I thought it would only remove Windows (8.1). However, now I have an empty hard drive. I had very important files on my hard drive. What should ...
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Does anyone know of any alternatives to recuva for file recovery? [duplicate]

I was using recuva to find pictures and videos on a windows xp hard drive, but I keep getting an internal error message. Does anyone know of an alternative program for recovering broken and damaged ...
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lost my files after mounting a partition as home folder [duplicate]

I made a bad mistake . I mounted a partition as home folder based on this post after reinstalling ubuntu my previous home folder mounts as an externall drive and I'v lost all of my files in my ...
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2 answers
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How can I recover my files and my system after running rm -r /home/username? [duplicate]

I am new to Linux & was running some random commands to experiment in terminal (Ubuntu-18.04 LTS) & by mistake I deleted my home directory. The command I executed is shown in the screenshot ...
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1 answer
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How to restore deleted files? [duplicate]

I deleted a user including his files, but then my data was also deleted. I restarted the computer and my account was gone. I created and account with the same name and the account was partially ...
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Recuva-like software for Ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]

Recuva is a Windows application used to undelete files Piriform Recuva. It has a nice GUI and is very dependable. Is there anything similar for Ubuntu?
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Ubuntu restore deleted files from find -delete [duplicate]

So I just recently downloaded Linux Ubuntu and I was experimenting with some of the functions to get used to Linux. While I was trying to learn I wrote in the terminal find . -delete -name (file name) ...
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1 answer
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recover data in linux removed with rm [duplicate]

Today i deleted my home directory (in wrong action) with: sudo rm -rf * And when i use extundelete i get this message: root@ubuntu:~# sudo extundelete --restore-directory /home/hamed/ /dev/...
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