How to recover a file just deleted

Question

I just deleted a file in Nautilus with Shift+Delete, which warned me that "If you delete an item, it will be permanently lost." I wonder if there is no way to recover the file?

My OS is Ubuntu 10.10.

And this thread might help too, since nothing is fedora-specific. — frabjous, Aug 13 '11 at 19:29

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '11 at 19:34

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The first thing you have to do is to umount the partition. Next, TestDisk might help

answered Aug 13 '11 at 19:34

Loïc GRENON

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '11 at 21:17

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You restore it from your back up. You do have one of those, right?

answered Aug 13 '11 at 21:17

bahamat

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 13 '11 at 22:59

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There are lots of disk scanners to help you get your files back after you unmount the file system. Try this one, a free open source solution just for ext filesystems.

answered Aug 13 '11 at 22:59

djhaskin987