Friendly reminder to never forcebly shutdown your PC - eviltoast

I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk…

  • wmassingham@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait it out, or fix whatever is making it “laggy”, like a program using all the CPU time.

    And OP can probably recover that data with standard recovery tools, if they haven’t continued using the PC. Or just redownload it, since recovery would take longer than two hours.

    • sourcepie@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      The 44 GB of data that got lost consisted of 191 files each around ~220 MiB in one single folder. I used testdisk to inspect my drive and I couldn’t find the data…