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I ran testdisk in order to recover one partition out of two with some important files on it. Testdisk brought back the partition with three folders: "$RECYCLE.BIN", "saves" (this is what I was looking for) and "System Volume Information". Shortly, everything that partition had on it.

The problem: all folders appear as empty. The "saves" folder has 16,4kb which it can't be. Also, the partition's free space is 19,7GB out of 22GB. Obviously, the files are still there, taking space up, but not showing up.

P.S. I am seeing this using a live-usb. After using testdisk and rewriting the partition table I get "error: no such partition. Entering rescue mode..." I don't know about this either. Maybe because it is in front of the ubuntu partition.

Andrei Besleaga
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$RECYCLE.BIN is obviously a Windows Recycle Bin folder...that being empty would not be surprising, unless you typically store files in your trash can.

System Volume Information is also Windows cruft, storage for windows restore points. So that could contain plenty of hidden data.

As you were looking for this saves folder, the question is exactly what the storage requirements are for this folder in an objective fashion (as you do not trust what you are getting). If you KNOW the files are in the saves folder, and you don't have any problem with erasing these two 'empty' folders, I would delete them and reassess the situation as a first step.

rm -rf "$RECYCLE.BIN"
rm -rf "System Volume Information"
Aren
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