[Leaplist] Can a deleted file be recovered on one's personal computer?

[Patrick]

William Ferguson wrote:
> My Op. system is Fedora 11.
>
> What I'm about to describe has happened several times.
> I seek understanding of why this problem arises.
> I seek information as to whether there's any potential for recovery of
> lost data.
>
> When running my Linux Fedora 11 computer there are many occasions when I
> send a file to "Trash."
>
> Later, when I open Trash, the file is there and can be expunged.
>
> But here's why I write to the List:
> Often, when I open "Trash" after having sent a file to Trash, the file
> is NOT in Trash. It has been deleted. Searching the machine
> fails to find the lost file.
>
> Today I used "Find" to learn where files about "Subject X" were located.
>
> I created a Folder in my /home/william directory which I named
> "Subject X."
>
> I opened both the just-located files screen and the New Subject X folder so that
> the the sc
snipped off

I am at this moment moving many of my huge 1.3 GB "files" from one 
partition to another, on my 500 GB hard drive, on this Sempron 2800 box 
(cpu speed is 1.8MHz).  I am doing the right click menu on the mouse, 
using "Cut", then, "Paste into folder".

They are huge educational movies, 669.7MB to 1.3 GB, each.

The first one is moving at 1.9MB per second, and it shows that it will 
take 5 minutes.

The third file is moving at 1.1GB and will take 32 minutes.  If there 
are more, it can be hours...

IOW file transfer is NOT instant gratification! 

So, my question for you is "how long do you give it, before you take a 
peek over at the destination, to see if the files have arrived there yet?"







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