"Norton Utilities" for ubuntu

[mark c. miller]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 08:22:23 +0100, Mark Williams wrote:

> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>> 
>> --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> From: Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> Subject: Re: "Norton
>>> Utilities" for ubuntu To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
>>> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Tuesday,
>>> May 26, 2009, 8:45 PM
>>> eyore15 User wrote:
>>>> I had occasion today to over-write a file I really
>>> needed.  I thought how
>>>> convenient it would be to have file recovery utility
>>> like Norton Rescue.
>>>> I'm pretty sure there is something out there, I just
>>> don't know what to
>>>> call it.  Ideally it would be in the Synaptic
>>> repositories.
>>>> Can you offer me any hope?
> 
> Can you add any detail about type of file, format of drive, what you
> have overwritten it with?
> debugfs is OK & can undelete a deleted file, if it's still there. If you
> just shortened a text file & haven't written to the disk again you're
> probably OK too.
> You could check the trash & be sure you didn't delete it before the
> overwrite :)
> If you completely wrote data over it, you need a foren$ic data service
> to get data from the fringes of the magnetic domains (ie you're screwed
> unless it's REALLY valuable). Norton can't do this one either. As
> previously stated, backups are wonderful - some apps will automatically
> create one, not many these days though, check for $filename & .bak. You
> can see, here, how useful some idea of exactly what we're discussing
> would make a lot of sense...
> 
> Mark

I am running Ubuntu 9.04.  The file I "lost" was and Open Office.org 
Writer file.  I had a file called Latin 11.odt.  For some reason, I 
decided to name another file "latin11.odt".  When the dialogue box told 
me that there was a file with that name already, I did the dumb thing and 
checked "yes" to over-write.  Now I have a file of greek roots misnamed 
as latin11.  I'd like to recover the original latin11 file if I can.  I'd 
hoped for some kind of a back-up file created by OOo, but couldn't find 
one.  I looked at debugfs, but I'm not smart enough to figure it out -- 
I'm really new at this.

Any tricks you've got up your sleeve will be appreciated.

mcm