On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 15:40 +0000, John Cooper wrote: > 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. >
Thanks John, I'll try it. Cheers, Peter' -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
