I migrated my wife’s PC after a forceful Windows 11 update to Linux. I made a backup of her files by doing an rsync of almost the complete C: drive onto an external drive formatted with exFAT. This was a grave mistake.

After the Linux installation we noticed that several files were missing and older files were back. My current guess is that I was somehow copying from an old snapshot instead of the current state.

I rsynced everything except for the Windows folder. Does anyone know if there is any chance of getting our filea back? Amd what actually happened?

  • Björn TantauOP
    2•24 days ago

    Now I just have to find out what her login data is. Because she doesn’t remember making a Microsoft account. Maybe I can find the username somewhere in AppData.

    • @lath
      1•23 days ago

      Go to Settings > Accounts. Everything should be there.

        • @lath
          2•23 days ago

          It’s linked to an email address. Search the inbox of whatever email might have been used for an email from Microsoft and then try recovering the password online.