Home folder empty and Login Screen loop

[LL-user]

Hi Lite Potato,

I might be missing or have forgotten something here. Didn't you mention that you could not log in anymore after you deleted the old home folder via a Puppy session? Just wondering how you have been able to install the Lite Control Center.

For recovery I would start with the following tools:

extundelete
more info: http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/
a manual: http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/linux-r...tundelete/

testdisk and photorec
more info:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
TestDisk & PhotoRec can also be found on LiveCDs: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd


ext4magic
more info: http://ext4magic.sourceforge.net/ext4magic_en.html

foremost
a manual: [email=http://www.tecmint.com/recover-deleted-file-in-linux/]mailto:http://www.tecmint.com/recover-deleted-file-in-linux/[/email]

scalpel
more info: https://github.com/sleuthkit/scalpel
a few manual:
http://linuxpoison.blogspot.co.nz/2012/0...alpel.html
http://linuxaria.com/howto/recover-your-...el-utility
[email=http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Recovering-Deleted-Files-with-Scalpel]mailto:http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Recovering-Deleted-Files-with-Scalpel[/email]

VERY IMPORTANT: Do NOT boot (anymore) from the partition you try to rescue data from! Best practice is to usually create an image of that disk and work with this image. If you want to/have to use the original disk make sure it is mounted read only!

As the software mentioned above (of course there is more out there) is provided by the Linux Lite repository, you could just use a LL Live CD/USB, install the software temporarily and go from there. Or you might want to use one of the many LiveCDs specialized on trouble shooting/rescue - see also link under testdisk.

Good luck