July 25, 20241 yr Hello I just now shift-deleted some files. Is there any way I can recover them? I have 2 parity disks. I hope for a miracle.
July 25, 20241 yr Community Expert If you have the recycle bin plugin installed you can recover them. If not then your best bet is a recovery program. Install the recycle bin plugin now if you don't have it. Also consider using shomething like cahttr +i to avoid such mistakes in the future. Edited July 25, 20241 yr by strike
July 25, 20241 yr Community Expert Parity is not a backup, it only protects against drive failure, if you delete something parity is updated in realtime to reflect that. Unless you had the recycle bin plugin installed you'd have to know which physical drive the files were stored on, take it out and use file recovery software. Edited July 25, 20241 yr by Kilrah
July 25, 20241 yr Author Well, I have the recycle bin plugin installed, but shift-delete seems to override it. I don't know which disk had the files. If it is reflected in real time then I am done right?
July 25, 20241 yr Community Expert Are you sure the share you deleted it from is enabled in the plugin settings? I've shift deleted many times and I believe the files still appear in the bin.
July 25, 20241 yr Author 1 minute ago, strike said: Are you sure the share you deleted it from is enabled in the plugin settings? I've shift deleted many times and I believe the files still appear in the bin. Now this is interesting. So I went and checked my settings in Shares, and Recycle Bin and didn't find anything related to the share names. Where is this setting you are referring to?
July 25, 20241 yr Author It seems I was very lucky. The directory I inadvertently shift-deleted is several tera worth. So Total Commander had to "calculate" the occupied space to delete. It seems I stopped the process fast enough. But this thing has to be prevented in the future. I added a suggestion in the Recycle Bin plugin.
July 25, 20241 yr Community Expert 27 minutes ago, xtrips said: Where is this setting you are referring to? I'm not at the computer at the moment, but you need to enable it for each share. Edit: I might be wrong about that. Maybe I'm mixing it up with something else. I just remembered that I deleted some file and afterwards discovered it wasn't enabled for that share. But I might be thinking about chattr +I. Glad it worked out in the end tho. As I mentioned you should check out chattr +i. It makes files read-only so it protects against ransomware as well as accidental deletes. Edited July 25, 20241 yr by strike
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