icedove email POP3
I made the mistake of deleting most of the emails, 4 years worth, thinking they would still be on the server. Forgot that even though the 'leave messages on server' was ticked, so was 'until i delete them'. After downloading all the email the first time, all the old mail was deleted from my HD and server and, now it's gone.
Is there a way to search my non encrypted HD for deleted stuff ?
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name at domain writes:
> I made the mistake of deleting most of the emails, 4 years worth,
> thinking they would still be on the server. Forgot that even though
> the 'leave messages on server' was ticked, so was 'until i delete
> them'. After downloading all the email the first time, all the old
> mail was deleted from my HD and server and, now it's gone.
>
> Is there a way to search my non encrypted HD for deleted stuff ?
>
testdisk/photorec is supposed to be a file recovery tool. It is in the
repos:
testdisk - Partition scanner and disk recovery tool, and PhotoRec file
recovery tool
Good luck.
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"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
PhotoRec is, indeed, great. Stop using your system (to avoid the free space to be rewritten) and work from a Live system. You can install the "testdisk" package on Trisquel's live system, for instance. See https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step for step-by-step instructions.
And, then, install a backup system!
I ran the scan on the Linux partition and now have nearly 700 folders. To delete them it asks for p/w every folder. I can't go through thousands of files like this.
How do you delete these recup_dir folders all at once ?
Giving 'sudo rm' every folder. Not one by one but all at once, using the character * in the shell.
Before deleting, make a backup of them (in case of that there are some desired e-mail files in it). For example:
tar zcvf backup.tgz recup_dir*
Then delete recup_dir directories using command:
rm -rf recup_dir*
The deletion worked, thanks. Strangely there is now 4% less space on /dev/sda6/home directory.
Hi, using photorec how do you search for only icedove email files ? .eml ?
Plain text files. Looking at my archives in ~/.icedove/*/Mail/Local Folders/*/ they are single huge text files.
I messed up again. Even starting with sudo nothing shows.
If there is eml in the list in https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step#Selection_of_files_to_recover try it.