How to recover deleted iPython Notebooks

This is bit of additional info on the answer by Thuener,

I did the following to recover my deleted .ipynb file.

  1. The cache is in ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/ (I use chromium)
  2. used grep in binary search mode, grep -a ‘import math’ (replace search string by a keyword specific in your code)
  3. 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
  4. Rename the file as .ipynb, open it in your jupyter-notebook, it works.

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