I migrated my wife’s PC after a forceful Windows 11 update to Linux. I made a backup of her files by doing an rsync of almost the complete C: drive onto an external drive formatted with exFAT. This was a grave mistake.

After the Linux installation we noticed that several files were missing and older files were back. My current guess is that I was somehow copying from an old snapshot instead of the current state.

I rsynced everything except for the Windows folder. Does anyone know if there is any chance of getting our filea back? Amd what actually happened?

Edit: After several weeks I finally found the answer. There are two drives in the laptop. But Linux didn’t see the NVME drive because it does not support “RST with Optane”. As soon as I switched the SATA mode over to AHCI I could see the system drive with the lost files.

  • JackbyDev
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    4 months ago

    When I turned on OneDrive it moved my Documents and Desktop folder to ~/OneDrive/. It’s definitely not a coincidence that those are the two directories missing for you. As everyone is saying, try checking their Microsoft account.