Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread Bart Salien
Op Friday 14 March 2003 09:44, schreef Piero Piutti: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were

RE: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread Robert Wideman
There are a few howto's on the net but usually it is impossible to do. You have to generally know the area (inodes) on the HD that the files were on and you read a hex dump of those inodes to verify and then you cat that information to a file that you want to save it in. I have read a few howtos

Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Bart Salien wrote: Op Friday 14 March 2003 09:44, schreef Piero Piutti: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the

Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 19:44, Piero Piutti wrote: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were

Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Bart Salien wrote: Op Friday 14 March 2003 09:44, schreef Piero Piutti: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the