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cmo

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From: qld, australia

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 2

Is there anyway to undo a 'find -delete' command?

Hey,

I accidentally just deleted 95% of my music collection (50+gig), instead of deleting all the .m3u files like I was planning on doing.  I did:

find /media/maxtor/Music -delete -iname '*.m3u'

...which I now know is the wrong way around.  Is there any way to save it or am I going to have to start recollecting it all?  It's on a fat32 drive.

Cheers,
Simon

answer: sleuthkit

Last edited by cmo (2009-06-26 17:12:07)

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: Is there anyway to undo a 'find -delete' command?

Since the drive is FAT32, use some Windows utility to recover your files.

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darthaxul

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 156

Re: Is there anyway to undo a 'find -delete' command?

thats a bummer man, i did something similar last week took about 3 full days to recollect every custom song. Now I always duplicate and on different machines as well, just in case the apocalyse happens.

Angle

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 21

Re: Is there anyway to undo a 'find -delete' command?

Hmm... just curious, but what exactly went wrong with that command? I'm a noob with find.

Last edited by Angle (2009-06-28 03:53:33)

fumbles

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 246

Re: Is there anyway to undo a 'find -delete' command?

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Last edited by fumbles (2020-09-26 11:41:01)