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Where are my files from Windows 11?
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Where were the files? An "older snapshot" doesn't really make sense.
Did you copy hidden folders? Usually c:\Users should have everything you want.
In case you are still curious, check my edit. Turned out that the computer had two drives but one was invisible to Linux.
Ahhh that makes sense.
The files were in the Documents folder and on the Desktop. The Documents folder is completely missing and the Desktop is very empty and contains links to already uninstalled programs. I also copied the Firefox profile from c:\Users\MyWifesName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla. And it too looks like it's about a year or two old.
Check inside the OneDrive folder.
Could you have copied the wrong disk or something? Did you do the copy in windows, or Linux?
Try using something like ncdu / qdirstat to see if you can find any large folders buried elsewhere on the disk.
In Linux. I just did an
rsync -avP /source /target.The OneDrive folder is empty except for a desktop.ini file.
You probably want to check your wife's Onedrive online with a web browser as by default Windows doesn't keep files locally in Documents/Desktop/Pictures etc.
Yeah that rsync command should be fine. I suspect you somehow copied the wrong thing, or Windows is using a non standard users folder path for some reason.
You'll probably need to cross your fingers and just look through the disk. Try the tools I mentioned above to search by disk usage, or just do find with some known file names.
Yeah, I was pretty confident in my method, which is why I didn't bother to check if the file view in Windows was the same as in Linux. I'm currently running ncdu but I'm not very confident. A find run for a known filename yielded nothing.
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.