From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@speakeasy.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: HELP! Backup up file vanished! Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 05:10:41 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gebser@speakeasy.net NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072261807 29584 80.91.224.253 (24 Dec 2003 10:30:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 11:30:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZ6HF-0003SZ-00 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AZ7EY-0002dq-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:31:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!heidegger.mousecar.net!ken Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1072260647 481 66.93.11.17 (24 Dec 2003 10:10:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:10:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119614 X-Originally-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15556 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15556 At 20:58 (UTC-0000) on Tue, 23 Dec 2003 J Krugman said: = I had been working for about 2 hours on an important e-mail (using = RMAIL), when my machine had to be rebooted. I had not saved my = work (I know, the oldest mistake in the book), but I was confident = that at least I would be able to find a "backup" file of the form = "#*mail*#...". To my dismay, there is no such file more recent = than several months ago. I even did a find command on my home = directory (no luck). = = My only hope at this point is that this backup has been placed = somewhere else. Any suggestions? = = My OS is Linux. = Each partition on each disk in your Linux filesystem will (should) have a "directory" called lost+found. If you don't find your file anywhere else, you should find it in there. You'll have to look at the contents of the files in lost+found because the filenames generally aren't saved. I.e., do a grep on the files there. Of course lost files are placed into the lost+found corresponding to the partition on which the original disk file was residing. hth, ken