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