2008/7/26 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Jonathan Berry wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Okay, I know this is a long shot, but I might as well ask and see if >> there is anything else to try. I recently lost some pictures because >> when importing into F-Spot, I accidentally selected not to copy the >> pictures to the hard drive. Now the F-Spot database references the >> files on the flash card, which has been erased and the files >> overwritten (I tried recovering from the flash card, no luck). I've >> noticed that when doing an import in F-Spot, it copies the files over >> to the hard disk during the import. If you hit cancel or change the >> copy option, it deletes the files. So, for a short time, the files >> *were* on my hard disk (or, at least in the buffer cache). Of course, >> I've been using my system for a couple days now (including a couple of >> reboots), so the data may be gone. But I don't want to give up unless >> there is just no hope. >> >> I am using LVM at the base and then ext3 as my filesystem on Fedora 9 >> x86_64. Does anyone know of anyway where the data from these pictures >> might still be around somewhere on the disk? I tried debugfs using a >> System Rescue CD live CD (I'm not sure where my Fedora DVD is). and >> saw the directory the files were in using ls -d. However the inode >> listed now belongs to another file, so it looks like there is no easy >> way to get to the directory information to possibly find the files in >> the directory. Is there maybe something in LVM that might still have >> blocks (extents?) from the files hanging around? >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Jonathan >> > Depending on what format the images are in, there are recovery programs that > grab the images even if the directory entries are missing. I have used > jpegrescue to recover images from a memory card that had been erased and new > a few new pictures saved to the card. I couldn't recover all the pictures, > but I did recover all the ones that had not been overwritten. > > Now, if only I could remember where I got it from... The images were Canon RAW files (.cr2). I already tried recovering from the CF disk. The files were all completely overwritten with files I took the night after the ones I wanted to restore. I tried manually looking at the data and then a free image recovery tool I found on the Internet (which supported .cr2 files). It found plenty of old pictures, just not the ones I wanted. Thanks anyway. Jonathan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
