[RLUG] Disappearing data

[Bill Cunningham]

Dennis,

The other possibility could be that you mounted a different
partition over the directory that you use as /home. 

- Bill

--- Ben Johnson <ben at blarg.net> wrote:

> is there a possibility you did something like:
> 
> rm -rf *
> 
> or...
> 
> find . -type f | xargs rm -f
> 
> in the wrong directory or something like that?  it
> happens to everyone
> eventually, at least once.  Usually because of some cut
> and paste
> maneuver gone horribly wrong or a goofy typo or because
> you forget to
> escape the crazy astarisk, spaces and/or ampersands in a
> filename.
> 
> or, maybe you moved everything accidentally.  try
> updating your locate
> database then use that to find the missing files.
> 
> $ su -
> # updatedb
> # exit
> $ locate whatImLookingFor.txt
> 
> or, maybe you renamed files or directories so that they
> start with a
> period, making them "invisible" by default.  do -> 'ls
> -a'
> 
> good luck,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:46:01AM -0800, Dennis Bagley
> wrote:
> > I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately
> several times) yesterday
> > but got
> > -0- feedback from anyone.  I'm still looking for
> answers because I do NOT want
> > to accidentally
> > repeat the problem.
> > 
> > So anyone have answers besides "42"?
> > 
> > Thanks again
> > 
> > Dennis
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Came into my office this morning to discover data
> missing from my PC.
> > 
> > I am running Ubuntu 5.04
> > 
> > On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay.  I
> have a dual drive system
> > and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10)
> on the second drive - it
> > seemed to install just fine
> > and I was also able to reboot into the older version. 
> I must admit that I did
> > not run any programs
> > other than email and the browser before leaving my
> office for the weekend.
> > 
> > HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare -
> my virtual machine files
> > were GONE.  The directory
> > where the files should have been was there but the
> files were not.
> > 
> > Also missing:
> >    all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox)
> >    all the pop3 mail on my system
> >    all of the contacts I had in Evolution
> >    all the "sent" mail
> >    all special email folders I had created that
> contained data.
> > 
> > 
> > All my other primary files appear to be intact.  Ideas?
> Have I been hacked? 
> > Did the the install
> > screw something up?  If so, how?
> > 
> > (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data
> is stored on the
> > server.  But I did not have a backup of
> > the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Dennis
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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