Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder}

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder}
Date	2017-10-20 14:40 +0200
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On 10/18/2017 02:09 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/18/2017 11:04 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I had posted:
>>
>>> It wasn't backed up - will have to follow advice advice I've given
>>> others ;/
>>>
>>> I've not done file recovery since early days of WinXP.
>>>
>>> On the affected machine I'm running Stretch(9.1) with Mate desktop.
>>>
>>> The affected folders are on a partition normally mounted by a line
>>> in fstab.
>>>
>>>
>>> I immediately shut down.
>>> There is another instance of Debian on a separate partition.
>>>
>>> Logging in as root I edited fstab commenting out the appropriate line.
>>>
>>>
>>> I feel the the data is still valid - there is just no appropriate
>>> directory entries for the affected folder and its sub-directories.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have copied the partition to another partition (using dd).
>> The critical data in the deleted  folder(s) was my SeaMonkey profile.
>> I discovered I did have a several months old backup of the profile.
>> I am now running Squeeze  (9.1) from a fresh install and installed the
>> latest SeaMonkey on it.
>>
>> Several packages in the Debian repository have been suggested. I will
>> download their man-pages and will try them.
>>
>> Several forensic packages have also been suggested which will used if
>> required.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>
> I did "extundelete --restore-all /dev/sdaNN".
> It apparently worked while stating it could not restore several files.
> SeaMonkey was unhappy with the results -- giving an error message
> suggestive of permission problem(s).
> That is still progress, before SeaMonkey would not start.
> I'll have to take a break and work out a reasonable diagnostic routine.
> Thanks again.
>

Having enough space on my HDD I added a fresh install of Stretch with a 
fresh copy of SeaMonkey. I then copied the critical SeaMonkey profile 
from the restored image to folder with profiles on new the new install 
and added it to profiles.ini . SeaMonkey had no problem with it.

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      Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-10-17 14:10 +0200
  Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-10-16 17:50 +0200
  Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-18 18:10 +0200
    Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-18 21:20 +0200
      Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-20 14:40 +0200

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