Dir gone - how to get it back?

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:49:08 AM, Colin wrote:

> On 15 May 2013 06:14, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> I'm setting up a new 12.04 box. Just installed a few printers, which
>> seemed to go OK - BUT, after that, one of my home dirs is GONE! Was a
>> BIG one with about 1/3 of the stuff in home, and very important. Any
>> idea of why just that dir [apparently] disappeared? Better still, any
>> way to recover it? I can't see it via another admin account, or with
>> the CLI. New box, a few days of intensive work, and didn't do a backup
>> yet. :-(
>>
>> What's the best thing to do [not involving a large soothing glass of
>> Scotch :-) ]?

> Just to check, are you saying that if you do
> sudo ls /home
> that the directory for that user is missing?

Yes, but I may not have been clear. There are perhaps 40 dirs under
home - only one is missing, the other, say, 39 are there. I did not
mean the entire home dir was gone. That is why this seems a bit
strange - just one gone.

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 rikona