DeanGreen Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 I had made this letter in KWord and was trying to save it In OpenOffice as a "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (Doc)" which I thought it had saved successfully so I could share it and was about to attach it in and email to share it with someone and so as not to confuse the issue and attach the wrong saved format I deleted the KWork copies and closed the open OpenOffice doc and was trying to attach it when it suddenly wasn't there?? I was sure I had definately saved it in OpenOffice but I guess I was wrong. Haven't lost a file by deletion in years. Since only the files name is erased and the file should still be there how do I get it back? Do I have to download a special program or what? Help!!! Thank You in advance. java script:emoticon('') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 I suppose it would depend on your file system for that partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 I suppose it would depend on your file system for that partition? Specifically, if you use the ext2 file system, then chances are you can recover text files. For example, recover worked for me. Also, there is Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO http://www.praeclarus.demon.co.uk/tech/e2-...undel/howto.txt that describes the process. I'm affraid it won't work for binary files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 All of his partitions are etx3, which is the mandrake default. Any programs that work for that? Also, how does 'recover' work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 VeeDubb, recover searches for inodes on ext2 that were deleted on a particular day/time/hour/.... and contain a particular text string. Then it dumps found inodes to wherever you command it. You then have to pick right file/pieces... For ext3 partitions, try this.... https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-us...r/msg00031.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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