I was running a photorec recovery to a desktop folder called "recovery" then I cancelled because I realized I won't have enough space. Then deleted the "recovery" folder thinking I can start all over but just selecting a few file types rather than all. But, even though I should have ~60GB free I'm still at 12GB free like I didn't delete the folder. I also removed it from Trash but still no luck. Where is it hiding? I tried the tmp folder in root but it didn't seem it was there. I still have the photorec.ses file. Should I delete the session somehow within the program itself?
Using antergos (archlinux). Thanks
PhotoRec stored data somewhere but I don't know where. Topic is solved
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Re: PhotoRec stored data somewhere but I don't know where.
As root, search for the recup_dir.1 directory
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sudo find / -name recup_dir.1
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Re: PhotoRec stored data somewhere but I don't know where.
Tried that. Gives me three directories. One is where I'm currently recovering so that can't be it I guess, one says permission denied and one is empty even with 'show hidden files' enabled or if I try cd to the directory and do ls.
http://i.imgur.com/nfSicEL.png
Trying the /run/user/1000/gfvs in the browser says it's empty
http://i.imgur.com/lOklumN.png
This is kinda strange, I managed to find all of them using
like explained here http://askubuntu.com/questions/215908/h ... -directory
Then used to delete them one by one just to be sure (asterisk being the number of the file).
Thanks for your help.
http://i.imgur.com/nfSicEL.png
Trying the /run/user/1000/gfvs in the browser says it's empty
http://i.imgur.com/lOklumN.png
This is kinda strange, I managed to find all of them using
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sudo find / -type d -name '*Trash*' | sudo xargs du -h | sort
Then used
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sudo rm -fr /root/.local/share/Trash/files/recup_dir.*
Thanks for your help.