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I was wondering what ways I may try to recover the pdf file?ĭefinitely start with leaving the partition with the data alone, if at all possible (you would be surprised what you can recover even a month later if it is not your main system partition). I am not sure it can produce useful results.

So I tried: sudo grep -a -C 500 '' /dev/sda4 > /tmp/test/recoverīecause those small files and the lost file both contain the string, and -C 500 is too arbitrary to specify the begin and end of a file. From one smaller pdf file, I can see the binary content of a smaller pdf file by cat smaller.pdf | less, which contains a readable pdf format specific string /URI () Smaller pdf files using pdftk and I still have those smallerįiles. To recover a text file which contains a known pattern.Ī while ago, I created the lost pdf file by concatenating several I saw in that says using grep -a -C 500 'known pattern' /dev/sda | tee /tmp/recover

The file was just lost instead of being deleted in 2016, so I am not I couldn't backup the partition of the filesystem by dd, since Iĭon't have an additional hard drive with big enough capacity for the If it can be helpful, I remember the pathname of the lost pdf file. But PDFXCView failed to overwrite the file, furthermore made it disappear and then aborted When I tried to save the edited file, I had to choose 'save as.' to locate the current path of the file and attempted to overwrite it.

Then I edited the pdf file already opened in PDFXCView.

I was running a pdf software application PDFXCView in Wine in Ubuntu 18.04, to open a pdf file in a ext4 filesystem. I accidentally lost a pdf file during the following process

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