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Michelle Wallace
Michelle Wallace
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Posted by Michelle Wallace
Michelle Wallace
2,376 Points

Copying in GitBash = lost file, please help.

I have been trying out commands in GitBash. After following the console foundations videos. So just the basics of moving around and file renaming etc. However I have tied to copy a file and it's disappeared? When I do "ls" on my folder the file I wished to move around was showing fine within the directory.

Inside my Training Resource Folder.I did the following:

Then I did

  1. mv training.txt /"Week 6 - Starting Work"

To move my "training.txt" file to this folder

then still inside my training resource folder I did the following:

  1. cp training.txt train.txt

I got back this error: " cannot stat 'training.txt': No such file or directory.

I assumed this was because I was still inside my training resource folder and I should have gone to my "week 6" folder where it was meant to be moved to in step 1.

I ran another "ls" on the training resource folder and indeed it was not present, like it had moved so I moved my start point to match. However still no file in "Week 6 - Starting Work"

So my question is can I get it back and how do I stop it from disappearing next time? The file is not important it was a test file but obviously I would like to understand what happened so I don't make the same mistake again.

I have also navigated from the desktop outside GitBash and the file is in neither folder and I have carried out a search on all files to no avail.

Thanks