[H-GEN] Help! Is there any advice on recovering deleted files?

[Shane Ravenn]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:06:51 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> 
> > Lastly let me say if rm -f caused your problem it was becaus you passed
> > it a bad argument or no argument at all, I would recomend you read very
> > very carfully before pressing enter on an rm line and/or use the -i
> > option.
> >
> Another good idea is to take advantage of the fact that expansion is done
> in the shell in unix (unlike in MS-Windows).  As a result you can use ls
> to list the files that you think you want to delete with rm.  The list
> generated will be the same with both commands.  This is particularly
> useful when you want to pass a complicated expansion to rm.

No matter how many safeguards you put into place, if you run the command in a
program like ROX, where there is no interactivity, you are unable to see any
errors it throws to save you from yourself.

The file was an esmith .iso that someone had included with two other .iso's to
show as three files on a cd burned on a win machine. This gave them weird
permissions and write-protects. I had to use various incantations of 'rm' and
'rmdir' using '-f' to remove them. I couldn't even move the file out of the
directory it was located. 

Just one of the pitfalls for wanting to use a graphical system, I suppose. I
would have seen what was happening before any real damage was done.

Looks like I'll be studying lde in more detail today.

Thanks
Shane Ravenn

-- 
A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. 
 - Chinese proverb
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