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How to recover deleted files using python?

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I was trying to program with txt files, and tried to move the txt file to a new directory. By mistake I have deleted some of my files. How do I recover my lost files using python or any other method?

posted Dec 26, 2013 by Jagan Mishra

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I'm afraid Python can't really help you there; you have to go to your OS and file system now. Do as little as you possibly can on that disk and you might be able to recover the contents. If you're lucky, your file system won't have reused those parts of the disk, so everything'll be intact... if you're REALLY lucky, you might even be able to find the bits you want without searching the whole disk. But it depends now on your OS and FS, not on Python.

This is why we make backups of all important files. I like to use source control (git for me, or you could use Mercurial or another one with the same result), which makes backing up an inherent part of all work. But everyone has those critical files that they didn't know weren't backed up... :(

answer Dec 26, 2013 by Bob Wise
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if you have net app in your Linux system you can recover files from 2 day back Otherwise its all dependent on your OS how you can recover your deleted file, not python .

answer Jan 11, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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