finding text files from USB disk

Question

I had a few Openoffice text files in a big folder, along with other stuff, I put that folder in a USB disk, I can find everything back except the text files, how could I get them back ? I'm on Xubuntu, and after I've put the folder on the disk, I sent the copy left in the trash bin and deleted it.

Answer 1

First make image of disk.

sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=./usb.img bs=4M status=progress 

Then install and use ''testdisk''.

sudo apt install testdisk

Then run testdisk on image file of usb

testdisk ./usb.img

Then press enter key on proceed.

Then press continue.