Help Help plz, I cut an very important folder and it disappears!

[tintin2011]

Help please!

I cut an very important folder, intend to paste it into somewhere else, and it then disappears!!

Please would some one tell me where I can find this folder please??

6 months work!!! thank you very very much!!!

[Irithori]

That is a vague description.
Have you looked in "somewhere else"?

Other than that, you could run as root:

updatedb

And then try a

locate <FILENAME>

where <FILENAME> is a filename of one of your missing files and or folder.

[tintin2011]

Hi, thank you. I've tried that and I cannt find it anywhere. So I thought there might be sth in linux like cut-and-paste-board in windows.

I am afraid that I have to face the fact that the folder is gone!

[cynwulf]

Depending on what kind of data you've lost, try running photorec (testdisk package in the debian repos) and see if you can recover the files (onto a different partition/drive).

[Randicus]

Did you look in the waste bin? Perhaps you accidentally deleted the item. I ask, because I have no idea if the locate command looks in the trash.
Sorry I cannot be of more help, but it is the only thing I can think of.