Hello please let me know if this is posted in the wrong place and if so where I should post to get useful information:
I was trying to mount my encrypted home directory from a livecd in order to back up my data (according to the instructions at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/455709) , when I accidentally deleted what I thought was one of the .ecryptfs folders in my encrypted home. Since I performed the "move to trash" in nautilus I thought that it would be in the trash and I could just restore it. No such luck. So now I am pretty much freaking out. I have the password, it looks like all the files are still in .Private but when I boot my system and logon all that is in my home folder are: Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop README.txt .Private .cache .gnome2 and a new folder that starts with ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.<longstringofrandomdigitsandletters>--. In other words I have no idea how to get the data out of my home folder now. Is it even possible? All the files are still there in .Private but I can't even read their names as they too are encrypted. I really don't care if I can never successfully log on again as long as there is some, however tedious way to recover the individual files. I do still seem to have the .ecryptfs folder in ../ one that has my main folder in it, which in turn has another .ecryptfs directory that contains auto-mount, auto-umount Private.sig Private.mnt and wrapped-passphrase. Which is what I was using to follow the instructions from that bugpost shown earlier. I am sorry for the long post and desperation, but this is years of work lost because of one stupid miss-click, and desperately hope to recover it. Thank you for your time Xander _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
