Thanks for the suggestion for photorec, which in Ubuntu at least is part of the
"testdisk" package. It worked a treat and recovered some very interesting pics
and other files. Hmm. A cautionary tale.
I couldn't find the all important missing photo, but that led me to the
discovery that each drive has it's own seperate ".Trash-*" folder that doesn't
show up in the Gnome tool bar, and the missing files were in there all the time!
I'm sure I was supposed to know that, but I thought I'd put that little tip in
the archive for others like me who don't know.
d'uh.
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