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Its a Good Feeling.
I feel like I've put in a full days work and that I can relax without feeling guilty. Todays file recovery program has gone swimmingly, and I have to admit that I'm beginning to think that my data 'loss' was all pilot error. You see, I've been doing some spot checking and it looks like all of the empty directories that Thunar created were in anticipation of moving files over. First it creates the directory skeleton, then it moves the files (which is a weird thing to do if someone might interrupt the process -- like I did -- but that's beside the point).
The reason that I couldn't find the source files that I had been moving is, I think, because I managed to fumble and drop them into another directory while I was working. So, all my panic over the last couple of weeks about VFAT file systems silently failing to correctly move files may have all been in my head. Certainly now that I'm doing a full search of the 'erased' drive, I'm finding all of my 'missing' source files, although they're in some pretty peculiar places.
So, in the end I'm not sure if I've lost any files at all. Certainly I've got a bunch of directories that desperately need unscrambling, but every time I look for something that I was sure was lost, I find it somewhere. I may not be happy at myself for blowing things out of proportion in a moment of panic, but I can't say I'm sad to be wrong about a major data lossage event. I'm also pleased with myself that I'm big enough to say publicly that I was wrong, and that all of my recent disk problems are probably my own damn fault.
And if nothing else, I now have far more familiarity with Linux's forensic and data recovery tools, which I must say are FAR superior to those that exist for Windows.
The reason that I couldn't find the source files that I had been moving is, I think, because I managed to fumble and drop them into another directory while I was working. So, all my panic over the last couple of weeks about VFAT file systems silently failing to correctly move files may have all been in my head. Certainly now that I'm doing a full search of the 'erased' drive, I'm finding all of my 'missing' source files, although they're in some pretty peculiar places.
So, in the end I'm not sure if I've lost any files at all. Certainly I've got a bunch of directories that desperately need unscrambling, but every time I look for something that I was sure was lost, I find it somewhere. I may not be happy at myself for blowing things out of proportion in a moment of panic, but I can't say I'm sad to be wrong about a major data lossage event. I'm also pleased with myself that I'm big enough to say publicly that I was wrong, and that all of my recent disk problems are probably my own damn fault.
And if nothing else, I now have far more familiarity with Linux's forensic and data recovery tools, which I must say are FAR superior to those that exist for Windows.