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Charon795

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Registered: 2023-08-25

Posts: 55  

Files disappearing

Hi all! The following problem occurred:
I have an external hard drive. There was a folder in this disk, in this folder there were 3 rows with files (8 files for each row). In the third row there were 2 libre-write files. The distance of these files from row 2 was further than that of the other rows. I was confused by this fact and I moved these files to the folder from row 2 and for some reason, surprisingly, I did not find these 2 files in the folder to which I moved them.
There are no files in the recycle bin, the files cannot be found through libre, it says that such files do not exist, although I recently accessed them.
Maybe someone has encountered something similar? It’s just that I’ve been using devuan for several days now, but it continues to amaze me. This is the first time I've seen files disappear like this.

ExposeGlobalistsMadness

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Registered: 2023-08-17

Posts: 40  

Re: Files disappearing

Maybe would you be 'missing' hidden files and hidden folders?  Those are files and folders with a dot in front of the file name.

They will display on and off in your file manager (thunar, spacefm, etc) by hiting Ctr+h.

Or you can see them if you navigate to that folder in a terminal.  For example, go to your home page (cd ~), and do:

ls -a

Usually, if you just list files without the -a option, hidden files and hidden folders won't display.  For an illustration, in the terminal at your home page, you will notice that hidden files and hidden folders don't get listed if you just do:

ls

Also, your file manager might arrange icons in 'detailed view' or an 'icons view'.  So the list can look shorter then. That can vary for each folder, unless you set that view for all folders.  Does anyone else know of other possibilities?

deepforest

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Registered: 2020-03-24

Posts: 312  

Re: Files disappearing

Hi. You using Thunar file manager? Do you remember the file names that disappear? Do you try use search function?
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/the-f … dow#search

Last edited by deepforest (2023-09-24 18:34:06)

deepforest

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Registered: 2020-03-24

Posts: 312  

Re: Files disappearing

may be this topic continue this story?
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6005

Last edited by deepforest (2023-09-24 18:37:23)

czeekaj

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Registered: 2019-06-12

Posts: 154  

Re: Files disappearing

could be a block size issue. If you are expecting 1024 bs but you are sending 512 and only get half a block. It might not write everything.