On Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 11:07:15 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: >Hello gurus, can somebody tell me how to recover a deleted file ? I >created a .doc file using Openoffice, saved it... Openoffice got killed, >when I restarted it it automatically recovered the file but then I >closed Openoffice as I didn't want to edit the file further... the file >then seems to have been deleted. >So.. can I recover such a deleted file ? >thanks
What filesystem? (ext2/ext3/xfs?) What document format? (XML, evil binary format) How important is undeleting it? (versus recreating it). Depending on the filesystem there might be some hope in getting it back, but it is a generally a lot of work. Possibly Openoffice saved it under another name, or in a tmp directory, or with a "." prepending it, or a "~" on the end. So before trying to undelete you might scout around your filesystem to see if it is there but hidden. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
