This is bit of additional info on the answer by Thuener,
I did the following to recover my deleted .ipynb file.
- The cache is in ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/ (I use chromium)
- used grep in binary search mode, grep -a ‘import math’ (replace search string by a keyword specific in your code)
- Edit the binary file in vim (it doesn’t open in gedit)
- The python ipynb should file start with ‘{ “cells”:’ and
- ends with ‘”nbformat”: 4, “nbformat_minor”: 2}’
- remove everything outside these start and end points
- Rename the file as .ipynb, open it in your jupyter-notebook, it works.