sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots / would list the APFS snapshots created by Time Machine. (not sure it would list others, nor what distinguished those; naming convention, probably)
There was another program in the beta, gone in the regular release of High Sierra, called apfs_snapshot; but one can find it with some googling. It could list, create, delete, rename APFS snapshots. > On Aug 20, 2018, at 11:03, Lee Bast <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Aug 20, 2018, at 1045 , William Parducci <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I am guessing by the urgency of your request you do not have a backup. If >> that is the case you are going to need to find a utility that will locate >> unlinked files to “undelete” them since command line deletes have no concept >> of Trash. > > Worth noting as well since he's running High Sierra that Time Machine > does have a concept of local snapshots, even if no backup drive is attached > (though it may have to be on first, I don't use TM myself since I prefer to > use ZFS and rsync). If it's been less then 24 hours and is APFS formatted I'd > suggest immediately entering TM and see what backups might be available if > any. Worth a shot. > After that agreed, time to look at undelete options. Also immediately > stop using your system, boot off another drive to work on it, because once > stuff starts getting overwritten it's definitely gone (though I've never > tried recovering from an APFS drive anyway). > And yeah, this comes up over and over forever but you need to run > backups of some sort. > >> For future reference NEVER issue sudo rm -rf in a multiline command. It is >> just asking for stuff like this to happen. > The guide (and a lot of MacPorts in general I guess) is more aimed at > devs and power users so it kind of assumes everyone is comfortable with the > CLI and knows basic footguns, but looking at that page it might be a > reasonable idea to not just tell people to run a copy-pasted multiline sudo > rm -rf command. It's a dangerous enough thing and it's a low bar to not say > "copy and run this" and change it to "here are a list of MacPorts' file and > directory locations, delete them for a full manual removal", then leave it to > users. > >> >> I have not used any of these but here are some places to start: >> >> https://www.cleverfiles.com/undelete-mac.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItpOT9-373AIVEdbACh1umQgFEAAYASAAEgJ1y_D_BwE >> >> <https://www.cleverfiles.com/undelete-mac.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItpOT9-373AIVEdbACh1umQgFEAAYASAAEgJ1y_D_BwE> >> https://www.ibeesoft.com/data-recovery-software/mac-data-recovery.html >> <https://www.ibeesoft.com/data-recovery-software/mac-data-recovery.html> >> >> >> b >> >>> On Aug 20, 2018, at 7:36 AM, LEYSAN GALIULLINA via macports-users >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> HELLO! i need y'all help so much! >>> I have macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 >>> X Code 9.4.1 >>> What i did is "2.4. Uninstall" following commands : >>> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html >>> <https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html> >>> I did Commands which starts as: >>> $ sudo rm -rf \ >>> /opt/local \ >>> etc. >>> The problem is- i lost everything i had on my desktop, which i made and >>> collect for years. It is real important files to me, i am DJ and now i >>> have nothing to work with. Please help to fix my terrible mistake and get >>> back everything i had (tones of music, pictures, documents,videos..etc) >>> please! I hope it is possible! Please, say we can do it. >>> Kind regards, >>> Sunley >>> >
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