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.
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