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I need help recovering my accidentally deleted files.

I'm running an Ubuntu OS inside a Virtualbox virtual machine and accidentally deleted a folder. I had a venv in my home directory that got deleted and its not in trash. The way it got deleted was I was trying to create a new profile for Firefox and set the profile directory to my venv. The venv got populated with a whole bunch of Firefox files which I didn't want in there so I deleted my profile on Firefox along with all files. I thought it would just delete the Firefox files but it deleted my entire directory.

Is there a way I can recover these files? I searched for an answer online and tried testdisk but the deleted files never appeared. It seems it may be very difficult or impossible to recover files deleted on a virtual machine.

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  • Have you seen this, might be closest to your problem. https://askubuntu.com/questions/425518/recover-files-from-a-broken-virtualbox-machine-vdi?rq=1 – crip659 Dec 30 '19 at 21:13
  • Does this answer your question? [Recover files from a broken Virtualbox machine .vdi](https://askubuntu.com/questions/425518/recover-files-from-a-broken-virtualbox-machine-vdi) – Tejas Lotlikar Dec 31 '19 at 08:51
  • Does this answer your question? [How to recover deleted files?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/3883/how-to-recover-deleted-files) – karel Dec 31 '19 at 11:53

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