Lost files

Jonathan Hirschman jonathan at hirschman.net
Sun Jan 13 19:35:14 UTC 2008


Ashley Benton wrote:
> Does anybody has an idea of how I could find out if he really saved 
> something on his computer yesterday?

This may be useful to you:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/find_mini_tutorial.shtml

find /home/son -mtime -1

Will find anything he created or modified in the last 24 hours. He
doesn't have root, right? So he can only save to his home directory,
then. If he has root (bad idea!), then try:

find / -mtime -1

Good luck.

jh






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