Recently, through my own mistakes, I ended up permanently deleting a handful of files I needed for a project. These were new files, so I did not have them saved in a weekly backup. I used Foremost to recover these files in Ubuntu. As long as they have not been overwritten, recovering deleted files should be easy in Foremost. I needed to recover image files, which is where a problem arose. It recovered so many images that the “output” folder it created locked up.

When a folder is locked you need to run as root in Ubuntu. Type “gksu nautilus” into the terminal. Foremost recovered 200,000 image files! Obviously, even with thumbnails turned off, this took a long time to load but eventually I was able to recover the files I needed.

One final issue: After I deleted the output folder, my system would not update my drive space. This command in the terminal:

sudo rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/files

…will clear out your trash.

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