minesheep,
I did not use a password for any of these - the duplicity backup, the backup hdd, or the bios. The SSD was the drive from the xps laptop I put in a usb case but it didn't work, couldn't see anything on the SSD drive - could be it failed in-addition-to/instead-of the motherboard.
I could see the HDD backup drive in File Manager and manipulate mount and unmount from either the desktop icon or from "disks". I could see all the duplicity volume names before I tried the last command when it was all deleted. Then I noticed it all in the trash folder in File Manager - with my normal file folder names - but locked so right click restore did not work. I tried some more research and found "trash-cli" to use from terminal, tried it's restore (from trash) command , but I don't think it did anything. Tonight I remembered something else I'd seen but not tried - about hidden folders. I changed to show hidden files, then on the backup drive itself I could see my files in a trash folder there (with a period in front of the name) -- and they were not locked!! Yea!! I have my files back
. Some were not in my folders, they were all dumped together, but at least I have them.
I've explained what happened in case anyone else has a similar issue, don't know if it will be of any help, since I don't really understand how it was resolved myself!
Thank you so much for trying to help.
I did not use a password for any of these - the duplicity backup, the backup hdd, or the bios. The SSD was the drive from the xps laptop I put in a usb case but it didn't work, couldn't see anything on the SSD drive - could be it failed in-addition-to/instead-of the motherboard.
I could see the HDD backup drive in File Manager and manipulate mount and unmount from either the desktop icon or from "disks". I could see all the duplicity volume names before I tried the last command when it was all deleted. Then I noticed it all in the trash folder in File Manager - with my normal file folder names - but locked so right click restore did not work. I tried some more research and found "trash-cli" to use from terminal, tried it's restore (from trash) command , but I don't think it did anything. Tonight I remembered something else I'd seen but not tried - about hidden folders. I changed to show hidden files, then on the backup drive itself I could see my files in a trash folder there (with a period in front of the name) -- and they were not locked!! Yea!! I have my files back
. Some were not in my folders, they were all dumped together, but at least I have them. I've explained what happened in case anyone else has a similar issue, don't know if it will be of any help, since I don't really understand how it was resolved myself!
Thank you so much for trying to help.