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Re: How to undelete files..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel Avillez)
Fri Nov 15 06:55:40 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:53:38 +0000 (WET)
From: Miguel Avillez <pancho@galaxy.ce.uevora.pt>
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In-Reply-To: <199611150312.WAA06155@st2184.tc.tufts.edu>
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well you could do that if you use looking glass (lg)
But I got the package from Caldera and installed in my RH-4.0. I never
installed caldera. but gave a look to their RPMS and they have this
package...
It works fine and it has a trash bin like mac, which aloow you to send
things to the bin and recover them later...
miguel
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, colonel panic wrote:
> Borg
> >
> > Ho See Chung wrote:
> > >
> > > I have carelessly deleted some important files. Is there a way to recover
> > > them. Or, is there a way to prevent this from happening again. Like some
> > > program which can back up a copy for u automaticaly, ie, any rpm package
> > > that do this?
> >
> > I am afraid undeleting is not possible. For backing up
> > my data and system config files on my home computer I
>
> I'm sure we all have some horror story :(
> But has anyone tried to implement a sort of mac/win95 (shudder)
> trash bin type thing, something real simple, like aliasing rm
> to mv <filename> /tmp/trash. Then you click on the trash icon
> and it wipes this directory out.
> I've read in Donald Norman's book, _The Psychology of Everyday Things_
> that forcing something, such as, alias rm rm -i just doesn't cut it,
> because people confirm the action, and not the file that is to be deleted.
> Also, when a file is deleted, isn't it just unlinked from
> the inode table, so can't you use some program to seek for those
> unlinked blocks and link them back again? providing the data wasn't
> already been overwritten.
>
>
> -steve-
> http://st2184.tc.tufts.edu
>
>
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