On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 12:20 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? > > I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. > > I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the > same filesystem (LVM ext3) with the mouse and as I dropped the folder > into the new folder - poof! - it disappeared like a puff of smoke. > > I've searched everywhere for the files/and or folder and they are > totally gone. > > I must also point out that the filesystem was an encrypted one using > fuse-encfs. > > In all my years of using Linux, I've never seen this happen before. > > Sadly I have no backup as I'd just copied them from an SD card to the > HDD then formated the card - maybe I was too quick doing that step. As with your experience, I doubt that it's really gone. More likely you just can't find it. I suggest using find (man find) to look for one of the files that is contained only in that folder. E.g. find /home/<user>/ -iname abc.jpg If you don't know a precise file name, surround it with single quotes and use a meta-character, e.g. find /home/<user>/ -iname 'a*.jpg' Good luck. HTH -- Bill > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos