undelete files

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> 
>> if I delete some files with rm; is it possible to restore them?
> 
> I recently undeleted some photos, using testdisk.
> Basically, you have to specify what kind of files you are looking for.
> In my case I specified JPG.
> 
> The process worked well, recovering dozens of JPG files,
> including those I was looking for.
> But I found the testdisk documentation almost completely unintelligible.

Looking again, I see that
<http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk:_undelete_file_for_ext2>
explains reasonably clearly what to do.

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