Re: Lost files...can they be recovered?

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try "ls -la" at the root of the folder that you moved files to.
> 
> From: Neil Loffhagen <neil@c-w-services.co.uk>
> Date: 2002/12/27 Fri PM 12:42:09 EST
> To: psyche-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Lost files...can they be recovered?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This must be one of the most stupid mistakes to b made...
> 
> I have a redhat 8 laptop and a redhat 8 server.  The server has samba
> shares on.  I had just rebooted the laptop and went to the mnt/neil
> folder and did a drag and drop of files on the local laptop to the
> share.  But the share was not actually mounted.  I should have realised
> this, as could see the share name, but no folders underneath.  Once I'd
> done the drag and drop the various folders disappeared from the local
> drive?  Guess this was doing a move rather than a copy?  Of course the
> folders never actually appeared on the server.  It all went too quickly
> as well.  So now the folders seem to have all disappeared completely? 
> They are not on the laptop or the server?  Is there any where they could
> be?  Looked in the trash. It's my whole Evolution setup, so I've lost
> all previous mail!  And here I was trying to back everything up, so
> could trash the machine and build it from scratch.  Now I seem to have
> lost all the files I was trying to make sure were safe :(
> 
> Any ideas most gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Neil.
> 
> 
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