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I'm running Ubuntu off a CD, and I lost a long letter I was typing into Facebook when my finger hit the small "back" button. How can I fish out this text from my RAM?

Asked by Matt Brenner

It sucks: I composed a long message to a friend on Facebook and before I sent it I accidentally hit the "back" button. I did some research but I really don't know what WINhex means or how to use TERMINAL commands to locate the text if possible in my RAM.
I'm running Ubuntu off of a disk while I wait for a friend to bring me over a cleaned out new hard drive since my old 80G one is almost full -- full of Windoze viruses, spyware, adware, and the clap!

Help me please....

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TheNerdAL (thedezigncenter) said : 		#1

There IS an option to install Ubuntu as your primary Operating System since you old HDD is full of viruses..just a thought.

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TheNerdAL (thedezigncenter) said : 		#2

Always Google before you ask any questions just to make sure there is an answer already: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ubuntu++unable+to+mount,+mount:+special+device+/dev/scd0+does+not+exist&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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TheNerdAL (thedezigncenter) said : 		#3

Ignore my last comment.

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

I'm affraid recovering of RAM is hopeless.

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Matt Brenner (mmbrenner) said : 		#5

okay thx.
Then I'll just have to create the next big thing in Social Networking Sites to topple Phase-book

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Cefn (6-launchpad-net-cefn-com) said : 		#6

If you do this in future, I often find that using the 'Forward' button immediately, in the same window, without doing anything else will auto-fill any 'form contents' just as they were.

I've a habit of editing any emails/social messages on my machine in a text editor with an auto-save feature. Gedit, when properly configured in Preferences will autosave every minute if you like. Then I copy paste when they are finished into the dangerous browser zone, where I can afford to make navigation or login errors without losing the whole thing.

Where I can't do this easily, I just type CTRL-A, CTRL-C very frequently within the web form to select all text, and copy the text. Remember to deselect the text afterwards by hitting 'right arrow' or putting your mouse cursor at the end of the text before you carry on typing. That way it's in the clipboard and I can re-paste a recent version if everything goes wrong.

But let's face it, facebook isn't a messaging platform. Whatever happened to email! We already solved these problems once!