[GNC] lost data

[Adrien Monteleone]

In a worst case, there are linux-based data recovery tools you can run from a live cd that can image the drive and rebuild files from that image.

Deleting a file and even emptying the trash does not necessarily destroy the data, but simply prevents the OS from accessing it and frees up the disk space to be written to. (it may not have been re-used yet)

However, the time involved in doing such a recovery may be greater than simply re-entering the data if you have it in some other form.

Best of luck.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:39 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Ill check some of these out, but I have done a fairly extensive search on my laptop already.. so fear the worst
> 
> I think your description of what has happened is spot on...  the trouble is that in the meantime I think I have done a lot off "cleaning up", and I am sort of dreadign that I have assigned it to the rubbish bin, and its already been overwritten on file  ( my hard disk is now in read only status, but I fear I may have spotted it too late)
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> john
>