Downloadad the Nokia Software Updater for N900 from nokia, connected to phone via usb and started the programm on PC... installation was automatically made.
Then i had a "new" n900 in my hands :-( no mp3, photos, programms, nothing
But when i connect to it via putty and WinSCP i can see, that /home/user/ directory is full of files and directorys.. most of them hidden... but i already renamed them to be visilbe again....
...the programm "TestDisk" is actually running....

attached is disk_usage file of /home/user/
as michaaa62 wrote before...

maybe its faster to install everything from the beginning? programms, settings, .. or is there a chance to get my "old n900"

ps.. i have teamviewer installed!!!
if someone would like to take a look.. ;-)

Please try again to attach the file.
Please note that these hidden files and folders are essential to your applications, because they contain the settings and configuration info for them. Do not rename them. Use ME2g's instructions for 'ls -al' in X-terminal or install filebox to browse your hidden folders in a gui file manager.

oh-oh, too late.. I already renamed all files and folders :-(
think it would be best du forget old files, progs, setting and start from the beginning.. :-(
Would be happy if i could reach one of the old backups...

file is now attached in my posting before..

Still not too late to recover dot.directories, you have them all in your disk_usage.txt file. Only the missing dot.files should be found before that This will give you an even longer list with every file existing in /home/user been written to the file /home/user/files.txt.
There are already 3 directories with possibly recovered files in /home/user/recup_dir1, /home/user/recup_dir2 and /home/user/recup_dir3. There might be a folder backups!?

Hi michaaa62, sent you the files.txt to your ovi-adress... :-)

Did you use photorec on the device already?
Well it recovers some files, but the hard work is identifying them and putting them together in context to each other[Nothing i would want to do ever!!!].
Please give testdisk a good run on the partition, it might show you the folders/files under their former names and in the right folders, which might just what you want. Go back to the walk-through i posted early at the bottom of this post http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=25, but please come back for more questions, if any.

Maybe for users like drnorton it would be fine to have some kind of
"List of files on a brandnew N900" so that he can identify the
new ones and the ones that are urgently needed for the system?

I did not find such a list in the forum or somewhere else.
Of course this would be different from country to country and
within the country from provider to provider.
Well...complicated...

:-(
Do you -by chance- have some tar-file of /home before that error
happened?

If yes you can list the content of the tar file with
tar -tvf <the name of the file>.tar
and post it.
It would possibly help to restore the correct "dotted"/hidden files.

Another thought came to my mind:
Can you post the output (if you type on your xterm):
more /etc/fstab
here? It also shows what your system thinks what should be mounted and what user ids and so on are used.
Also
more /etc/mtab
would be interesting. Output will be larger.


Did you store the backups on the SD card?
I have them all on the SD Card and I've backuped the backups via
rsync.
See
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59328

But you should also read the links that I've posted. ;-)