Data Recovery – Deleted All Files While Removing Wine from Home Directory

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After trying to remove Wine from Ubuntu, all my files were suddenly gone. That is, I do not see any of my documents etc., but my hard drive says only 3 GB is still available (which is common for my small hard drive).

The problem occurred after doing this: How to remove wine completely and then the top rated answer (of pagal pila). Most likely I did something not appropriate for my version/pc (Learned the hard way that people shouldn't just try commands they don't understand).

Does anyone know how to recover/show my removed/hidden files?

As commented, I ran history: 

    1  sudo apt-get remove --purge wine  
    2  rm -rf $HOME/ .wine  
    3  sudo  
    4  sudo rm -rf $HOME/.wine  
    5  sudo rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*  
    6  rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*  
    7  rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine  
    8  rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine  
    9  rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm  
   10  sudo apt-get remove --purge wine  
   11  sudo apt-get update  
   12  sudo apt-get autoclean  
   13  sudo apt-get clean  
   14  sudo apt-get autoremove  
   15  apt-get update

Best Answer

rm -rf $HOME/ .wine I see a space there ... You nuked your home with that.

Does anyone have a clue how to recover/show my removed/hidden files?

Got a backup? If so use that. Otherwise ...

  • do NOTHING with that system. N O T H I N G. Any change to that bit of the disk lowers your ability to recover anything from it.
  • Boot up a Live DVD and install "testdisk" in it.
  • Run testdisk and have it scan that partition.
  • Start praying.
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