• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    It didn’t move anything. The filesystem got corrupted and that directory was erroneously marked as unused space, which is probably why you were running chkdsk in the first place. Lost and found is the correct place to put files recovered this way because chkdsk doesn’t know where they’re supposed to go. Fsck does the same thing and in fact lost+found is a default directory on most (all?) unices

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          It failed to fix itself. Yes, I “ignored” it for a few days as I had no time to sit for it to check the drive - when I was ignoring the prompt it was still working. It would have broken itself earlier, and I would have been even more screwed. And no policies for backup were allowed by IT, other than a couple files on OneDrive.