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I decided to stop testdisk again because I had no idea of what it was doing or when or how it was going to stop

All I could see it was producing more and more data to no end

du actually reported pretty much the same amount of data konqueror (file system browser does) but I don't actually see ...

I haven't found an authoritative tutorial with step by step instructions. Could you point me to one?

Well, I did find them, for example:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

but I am still running into (what seems to me to be) awkward issues. I definitely know that disk ...

While using gparted, I mistakenly "deleted" a small (40 Gb) partition where I had some code I need to recover, so I did install testdisk and ran it without apparent problems, yet it seems to have stopped. All I see for a long time is "Copying, please wait..."

I can see test disk process has been ...