2025-04-22 11:19
I type D twice, and it hits me. The Documents folder is gone. I only meant to delete a few random files, but forgot I selected such an important folder, and hardly glanced at the Recycle Bin when I wiped it.
That taught me the importance of double checking delete actions.
But that lesson won't help bring back Documents on its own. Experience in file recovery reminds me to shutdown to avoid the PC overwriting those essential files.
The recovery process taught me a lot about linux, how the ext4 filesystem is harder to recover from, that ext4magic is the next thing to install, and when that program crashed, to not lose hope.
A mere update may fix it and bring back my Documents.