I moved/renamed a folder with .svg-figures using mv fig figs. In my mind, this should have renamed the folder 'fig' to 'figs'. Accordingly, the output from ls showed a folder named 'figs' when I ran it directly after renaming. I never checked that the content was in the folder, but went on to produce a few pdfs using pandoc. Now, when I run ls, the directory 'figs' is no longer listed and I can't find the containing figures anywhere in my system.

I tried sudo updatedb and then locate fig | grep svg (most files in the folder had 'fig' in the file name and the extension .svg). I also tried sudo find / -iname "*fig*" |grep svg , but non of the figures I had in the original directory show up. I also tried looking in ~/.local/share/Trash, but nothing there either.

I thought I was safe first since I use SpiderOak to backup all my files and it also keeps track of deleted files and file versions. However, when I went into the client there is nothing there. Neither of the directories 'fig' or 'figs' are listed either in existing or deleted files. This is a mystery to me, does anyone have an idea of what happened and where I can find my figures? Or is my only hope to use something like photorec to restore all deleted files on the entire partition?

Update

Here is a full list of all the commands I ran from moving the directory to starting to search for it. ll is ls -al and l is ls.

2013  mv fig figs
2014  pandoc -s -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
2015  l
2016  history | grep pandoc
2017  history | grep pandoc | grep svg
2018  cat pandoc-svg.py
2019  cat ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
2020  "pandoc -f markdown -t plain"
2021  pandoc -f markdown -t plain
2022  pandoc -f markdown -t plain abs_ce_ms.md 
2023  pandoc -f markdown -t plain met_ce_ms.md 
2024  cat met_ce_ms.md 
2025  echo "pandoc -f markdown -t plain" >> ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
2026  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
2027  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=
2028  ls
2029  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=./pandoc-svg.py
2030  ls fig_ce_ms.md 
2031  ls figs
2032  ls ../
2033  ls
2034  l
2035  ll
2036  sudo updatedb
2037  locate fig

I moved/renamed a folder with .svg-figures using mv fig figs. In my mind, this should have renamed the folder 'fig' to 'figs'. Accordingly, the output from ls showed a folder named 'figs' when I ran it directly after renaming. I never checked that the content was in the folder, but went on to produce a few pdfs using pandoc. Now, when I run ls, the directory 'figs' is no longer listed and I can't find the containing figures anywhere in my system.

I tried sudo updatedb and then locate fig | grep svg (most files in the folder had 'fig' in the file name and the extension .svg). I also tried sudo find / -iname "*fig*" |grep svg , but non of the figures I had in the original directory show up. I also tried looking in ~/.local/share/Trash, but nothing there either.

I thought I was safe first since I use SpiderOak to backup all my files and it also keeps track of deleted files and file versions. However, when I went into the client there is nothing there. Neither of the directories 'fig' or 'figs' are listed either in existing or deleted files. This is a mystery to me, does anyone have an idea of what happened and where I can find my figures? Or is my only hope to use something like photorec to restore all deleted files on the entire partition?

Update

Here is a full list of all the commands I ran from moving the directory to starting to search for it. ll is an alias for ls -al and l is an alias for ls.

2013  mv fig figs
2014  pandoc -s -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
2015  l
2016  history | grep pandoc
2017  history | grep pandoc | grep svg
2018  cat pandoc-svg.py
2019  cat ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
2020  "pandoc -f markdown -t plain"
2021  pandoc -f markdown -t plain
2022  pandoc -f markdown -t plain abs_ce_ms.md 
2023  pandoc -f markdown -t plain met_ce_ms.md 
2024  cat met_ce_ms.md 
2025  echo "pandoc -f markdown -t plain" >> ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
2026  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
2027  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=
2028  ls
2029  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=./pandoc-svg.py
2030  ls fig_ce_ms.md 
2031  ls figs
2032  ls ../
2033  ls
2034  l
2035  ll
2036  sudo updatedb
2037  locate fig

I moved/renamed a folder with .svg-figures using mv fig figs. In my mind, this should have renamed the folder 'fig' to 'figs'. Accordingly, the output from ls showed a folder named 'figs' when I ran it directly after renaming. I never checked that the content was in the folder, but went on to produce a few pdfs using pandoc. Now, when I run ls, the directory 'figs' is no longer listed and I can't find the containing figures anywhere in my system.

I tried sudo updatedb and then locate fig | grep svg (most files in the folder had 'fig' in the file name and the extension .svg). I also tried sudo find / -iname "*fig*" |grep svg , but non of the figures I had in the original directory show up. I also tried looking in ~/.local/share/Trash, but nothing there either.

I thought I was safe first since I use SpiderOak to backup all my files and it also keeps track of deleted files and file versions. However, when I went into the client there is nothing there. Neither of the directories 'fig' or 'figs' are listed either in existing or deleted files. This is a mystery to me, does anyone have an idea of what happened and where I can find my figures? Or is my only hope to use something like photorec to restore all deleted files on the entire partition?

###Update Here is a full list of all the commands I ran from moving the directory to starting to search for it. ll is ls -al and l is ls.

| 2013  mv fig figs
│ 2014  pandoc -s -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
│ 2015  l
│ 2016  history | grep pandoc
│ 2017  history | grep pandoc | grep svg
│ 2018  cat pandoc-svg.py
│ 2019  cat ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
│ 2020  "pandoc -f markdown -t plain"
│ 2021  pandoc -f markdown -t plain
│ 2022  pandoc -f markdown -t plain abs_ce_ms.md 
│ 2023  pandoc -f markdown -t plain met_ce_ms.md 
│ 2024  cat met_ce_ms.md 
│ 2025  echo "pandoc -f markdown -t plain" >> ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
│ 2026  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
│ 2027  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=
│ 2028  ls
│ 2029  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=./pandoc-svg.py
│ 2030  ls fig_ce_ms.md 
│ 2031  ls figs
│ 2032  ls ../
│ 2033  ls
│ 2034  l
│ 2035  ll
│ 2036  sudo updatedb
| 2037  locate fig

I moved/renamed a folder with .svg-figures using mv fig figs. In my mind, this should have renamed the folder 'fig' to 'figs'. Accordingly, the output from ls showed a folder named 'figs' when I ran it directly after renaming. I never checked that the content was in the folder, but went on to produce a few pdfs using pandoc. Now, when I run ls, the directory 'figs' is no longer listed and I can't find the containing figures anywhere in my system.

I tried sudo updatedb and then locate fig | grep svg (most files in the folder had 'fig' in the file name and the extension .svg). I also tried sudo find / -iname "*fig*" |grep svg , but non of the figures I had in the original directory show up. I also tried looking in ~/.local/share/Trash, but nothing there either.

I thought I was safe first since I use SpiderOak to backup all my files and it also keeps track of deleted files and file versions. However, when I went into the client there is nothing there. Neither of the directories 'fig' or 'figs' are listed either in existing or deleted files. This is a mystery to me, does anyone have an idea of what happened and where I can find my figures? Or is my only hope to use something like photorec to restore all deleted files on the entire partition?

Update

Here is a full list of all the commands I ran from moving the directory to starting to search for it. ll is ls -al and l is ls.

2013  mv fig figs
2014  pandoc -s -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
2015  l
2016  history | grep pandoc
2017  history | grep pandoc | grep svg
2018  cat pandoc-svg.py
2019  cat ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
2020  "pandoc -f markdown -t plain"
2021  pandoc -f markdown -t plain
2022  pandoc -f markdown -t plain abs_ce_ms.md 
2023  pandoc -f markdown -t plain met_ce_ms.md 
2024  cat met_ce_ms.md 
2025  echo "pandoc -f markdown -t plain" >> ~/edu/notes/notetaking_approach.md
2026  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md 
2027  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=
2028  ls
2029  pandoc -o out/figs.pdf fig_ce_ms.md --filter=./pandoc-svg.py
2030  ls fig_ce_ms.md 
2031  ls figs
2032  ls ../
2033  ls
2034  l
2035  ll
2036  sudo updatedb
2037  locate fig