Comment 7 for bug 998033

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Rob Peters (makitso) wrote :

Only two years of email and many scanned pictures. (recovered some with scalpel). The problem was that my backup drive was mounted and it took that out as well -- lesson learned!

If my memory serves me, this thumb drive should have had a few WIN7 directories and files. There were about 6 of them. Don't know if there were hidden files or not.

> For instance, were there some filenames with non-ASCII characters, like chinese/accents/etc ?

Answer: None that I know of

> Were there some links inside the trash (links shouldn't be followed of course, but ...) ?

Answer: Could have been. But, this was the third thumb drive that I had mounted and I deleted files from the first two OK that I remember. The first two thumbs contained files from Ubuntu copies, etc. I have used them a lot in the last two weeks. The third thumb drive (256MB) is not used much of all. In fact, the contents could have been a year old and last mounted on a WIN7 system.

So, before the third drive was inserted in the USB, the .trash should have been empty.

Rob