What would really help would be a way to ‘un-delete’ files. But so far as I’m concerned if I can’t open, edit or print from it, it doesn’t exist in any practical sense. “Yes, fine” you say, “I’ll rest easy knowing my resume ‘exists’ in some abstract sense. In fact, depending on the size of the file and the free space on your drive deleted files can persist indefinitely-even if you do write on the drive. So long as you don’t write onto the drive, it absolutely still exists. All that’s happened is that it’s been bumped off a list. “Don’t worry?” you counter, “I just erased the only copy of my resume!” And remember you’re not alone sooner or later everyone does this. Have you ever gotten that horrible feeling? The one you get when you realize that you accidentally deleted files and it’s not even in the trash? Often it is immediately preceded by denial: I know I have another copy of it somewhere.īut rather than going through all the stages of grief, don’t worry. It’s an easy to use tool that almost anyone can use to recover lost files in Ubuntu or other Linux distributions.

Brief: This article shows you how to recover deleted files in Linux using command line tool Test Disk.

Testdisk tutorial