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photorec photo recovery software not seeing my mounted filesystem - trying to use photorec to recover lost...

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1 What is my situation? I am working in a Dev Ops capacity for a service that manages jpeg files online. We had an unfortunate deploy and our media files (jpegs) are completely gone. I anticipate that our loss is probably simple and may be recoverable. I think somehow that the directory that contains the sub-directories that have our jpeg files was unlinked. If this is the case, we should be able to recover them. What I have done so far and where we are hosted -- details I realized the loss almost right away and fortunately we did not have any users online at that moment. I stopped our service and brought down our server. I did that to prevent any more writes to the filesystem figuring that avoiding writes was essential to file recovery. We are running Ubuntu 16.04 in DigitalOcean. I have brought the server