All my files have been erased after I tried to make my audio better

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I am using Kali Linux 2.0 Debian 64 bit and I was having some problems with Sound output, I went to a certain website which advised me to execute the following sudo killall pulseaudio

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio     paman pavumeter pavucontrol

rm ~/ .pulse-cookie  
rm -r ~/ .pulse 

sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils  alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

apt-get install kmix 

restart

apt-get install pulseaudio and hit enter and and last type apt-get install gnome-core and again hit enter.

reboot

And the next thing I see all my bookmarks and files on my hard drive are missing. Is there anyway I can retrieve them?

The moral of the story is, don't execute commands you don't understand. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Aug 31 '16 at 00:00

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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your mistake is here:

rm -r ~/ .pulse

there were no space between ~/ and .pulse on this website I believe.

So, you effectively deleted all files in directory ~/ (your home directory) and in sub-directory .pulse of a current directory.

It is a hard job to restore your files. Check that answer please: Unix/Linux undelete/recover deleted files

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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root@kali:~# debugfs -w /root/Documents debugfs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) /root/Documents: Is a directory while opening filesystem debugfs: lsdel lsdel: Filesystem not open – beegee Assem Aug 30 '16 at 18:10
@beegeeAssem There's little chance that you'll be able to recover files this way anyway. Restore from your latest backup. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Aug 31 '16 at 00:01

All my files have been erased after I tried to make my audio better

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