Recover deleted files (Urgent)
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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 Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is there > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very much > appreciated. File type? (ext2/3 reiserfs ) EXT2 can be undeleted using mc. resierfs not -- Ron KA4INM - I think I could live on my pay if governments didn't take half!      |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:35:26 +0800, CL wrote: > Dear Sir, You don't have to call me "Sir". > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is there > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very much > appreciated. Hmmm.... > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 I'd recommend you use this command: format C: /u /y -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) CL wrote: > Dear Sir, > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is there > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very much > appreciated. > > Thank & Regards, > CL > > Whatever you use to recover the deletion (and there are myriad ways), you should unmount the partition that has the deletion immediately, to eliminate the danger of some other process overwriting the area which contains the file(s) you're trying to save... |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) Dan C wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:35:26 +0800, CL wrote: > > >>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 > > > I'd recommend you use this command: format C: /u /y > Dude, I find it somewhat alarming that you actually KNOW THAT SYNTAX! Hopefully, you had to look it up. Which, come to think of it, would also be somewhat alarming...  |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) "Ron KA4INM" <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news  an.2007.03.21.02.10.14.461201@tampabay.rr.co m...> > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is there > > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very much > > appreciated. > > File type? (ext2/3 reiserfs ) > > EXT2 can be undeleted using mc. resierfs not > -- > Ron KA4INM - I think I could live on my pay if > governments didn't take half! > Dear Ron, It is Ext3. Can it be recover? Regards, CL |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) YAHSPLU (Yet another helpless self proud Linux user) -- CL "Dan C" <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote in message news an.2007.03.21.03.53.27.154059@lan.invalid...> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:35:26 +0800, CL wrote: > > > Dear Sir, > > You don't have to call me "Sir". > > > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is there > > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very much > > appreciated. > > Hmmm.... > > > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 > > I'd recommend you use this command: format C: /u /y > > > -- > "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". > |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) "Chris Sorenson" <csoren@isd.net> wrote in message news:4600D811.6060908@isd.net... > CL wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is there > > a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very much > > appreciated. > > > > Thank & Regards, > > CL > > > > > > Whatever you use to recover the deletion (and there are myriad ways), > you should unmount the partition that has the deletion immediately, > to eliminate the danger of some other process overwriting the area > which contains the file(s) you're trying to save... Thank for your advise. |
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02-20-2008, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) CL wrote: > "Ron KA4INM" <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message > news an.2007.03.21.02.10.14.461201@tampabay.rr.co m...> >>>I accidentally deleted my company inbox mail directory (SendMail). Is >> > there > >>>a simple way to recover it? I am quite new to Linux. Your help is very >> > much > >>>appreciated. >> >> File type? (ext2/3 reiserfs ) >> >> EXT2 can be undeleted using mc. resierfs not >>-- >> Ron KA4INM - I think I could live on my pay if >>governments didn't take half! >> > > > Dear Ron, > It is Ext3. Can it be recover? > > Regards, > CL > > I have had excellent results using stellar's data recovery solutions: http://www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data-recovery.htm It is non-free, but in my opinion well worth the price... |
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02-20-2008, 09:24 PM
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| Re: Recover deleted files (Urgent) Chris Sorenson wrote: > Dan C wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:35:26 +0800, CL wrote: >> >> >>> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 >> >> >> >> I'd recommend you use this command: format C: /u /y >> > > Dude, I find it somewhat alarming that you actually KNOW THAT SYNTAX! > > Hopefully, you had to look it up. Which, come to think of it, would > also be somewhat alarming... For many of us it was computer kindergarten, till we were kicked out by Win95 and its Mafia of wizards. So we found easy refuge in Slackware. Life is simple again. Have fun Stanislaw Slack user from Ulladulla. |
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