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Help urgently needed

  • 29-04-2006 12:29PM
    #1
    Kevo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭


    hey,
    I tried to cut and paste 2 video files to my mp3 player but the paste failed and I have lost the files. On my mp3 player they show up in the browser but the filesize is 0 Bytes instead of about 700 MB. Can I recover them? BTW I'm using Ubuntu.
    Thanks,
    Kev


Comments

  • #2
    Syth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭Syth


    Hmmm, that kinda depends. What you really need is an undelete utility. Unfortunatly you cannot undelete a file on a Linux filesystem (such as ext3), but you can on older filesystems like FAT32. If it's an MP3 player it's probably a FAT32 filesystem so undeletion should be possible. Firstly stop using the MP3 player. Don't put any files on it, or modify existing files. The more you change a FAT32 filesystem the less likely you will be able to undelete a file. That's because there's a chance that the old file will be overwritten.

    I don't know if any FAT32 undeletion programmes exist for Linux. SourceForge, FreashMeat or Google Linux will help.


  • #3
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭niallb


    You might be able to undelete iff it's an ext2 filesystem
    and you haven't done much with it since.

    If the mp3 player can be mounted as a USB drive or similar,
    you've a good chance of getting them back.
    Good luck,
    NiallB


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