On 18/11/10 15:05, Peter & Jill Harris wrote:
Thanks for responses. I'm sure it was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples. I
restored /etc, /home and /usr/local in that order using Simple Backup,
the backups were on a separate hard disk. Thanks for offer to assist if
I lived in the Poole area John but I live in Swanage. If all else fails
I have copies of most of my folders on a separate hard disc but they are
not up to date and I would lose all the cataloguing from about 500
photos.
Peter, try Knoppix CD, it has Testdisk on it
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Which can recover lost files, but the more you write to the disk, the
less chance of recovering the files.
ls ~/ will list your home directory, and as long as you are not root,
shouldn't have touch /etc etc.
You often see
alias rm='rm -i'
in .bash_profile for a good reason, especially under root.
John.
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