Lost all my files [closed]

Following the routine Ubuntu upgrade request on Jan 19, when I reopened Ubuntu, I could not find any of my Document files or images. I suspect they may be hiding somewhere, but I don't know where. I could not access my own blogspot blogs either. Solutions welcomed!

Solution 1:

Assuming the files are still somewhere on your hard drive (during a routine upgrade files are not thrown away) you could try:

sudo updatedb

this will update a database with everything on your disk. And now you can search using:

sudo locate name |less

replace name with (part of) the name of a file which you lost.

Hopefully it pops up on a different location.

Maybe the location of your documents was not the standard location so the links are now incorrect.