Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <413F92E2.E7F3C3B2@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:16:50 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Recovering deleted files References: <413F5AAE DOT 1050602 AT comcast DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com "David J. Stelte" wrote: > > Well, it happened to me. I did a rm *, not realizing I was in a > different directory than I thought I was and deleted a couple very > valuable files that I had not backed up recently. Is there any way to > recover them? I am using Cygwin running under XP. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Cygwin does not delete files in any way differently that windows. Do the same thing that you would do if you accidentally deleted files in Explorer or the Command Prompt. A google search for "undelete software" or "recover deleted files" would be where I'd start. I've used GetDataBack NTFS in the past with success. This is not a Cygwin question at all really. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/