[Solved] Lost files

olvar · 2011-04-26 12:57:26

Hi,

I have just lost some really important files. What happened is the following:

I have a partition in ntfs which I use to share files between arch and windows.
I started working with some files in arch, and then hibernated. Later I continued editing those files in windows. Since occasionally I play some games in windows, there has been some time since I worked in linux.

Now, when I resumed arch, the files are left as the first time in linux. All the changes made in windows are lost. I restarted windows and the files are lost too!

What could I do to recover those files?
thanks for any help!

Last edited by olvar (2011-04-26 14:12:18)

SS4 · 2011-04-26 13:00:37

Have you looked in lost+found in the directory where your windows drive is mounted?

olvar · 2011-04-26 13:04:12

thanks for the quick response, but no such directory exists

byte · 2011-04-26 13:41:42

> What could I do to recover those files?

Nothing. Upon restoring them to the old state in Linux, they got overwritten and that's it.
Start again.

olvar · 2011-04-26 14:11:55

That seems right, but I'm lucky!

I installed "ntfsprogs" from the repos, and run ntfsfix on the partition. The files are recovered now.
I guess that since I hibernate, the new files got orphaned on resuming. The original files seems to be just overwritten and the changes lost, but the new files are ok.
Since before making large changes I use to copy the files, just in case, I didn't lose anything significant.

ty

byte · 2011-04-26 15:46:59

Oh, nice!
'ntfsfix', that's something to remember.

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