I deleted a huge folder containing mp3 & mp4 songs by mistake. I thought it will be in trash but when I opened it, the folder wasn't there but when I opened the properties of trash I saw that it contained +2000 folders of 55 GB. The files are not visible somehow. Can you please tell me how to recover it? I don't want this huge loss of my favourite items.
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You can view hidden files in Nautilus using the keyboard combo ctrl + h. Or using the menu: select View->Show Hidden Files.
If the files were deleted from an external drive they may be on that drive in a .trash hidden directory
As a ditch effort; if you know the name of a file (a good unique name) you can use the following to search the whole filesystem
sudo find / -iname "*<good file name>*"
<good file name> should be replace with a filename but keep the * on each side
That will take a while to run.
Dan
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