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

[William Ferguson]

Thanks, Patrick,

I've come back to your suggestion.

In my case, I lost,  in the "Subject X" Folder, only 8 files.

None of those files exceeded 15 KB in data size.

I'm assuming that in my particular case, the "time elapsed" factor
was not significant.

But I sure hadn't thought of "time" either. Good for me to
remember that in future experiences.

William
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 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
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> snipped off
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> 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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