How to recover a deleted file in ubuntu?

Question

ubuntu

A very important file that I have been working on for a long time has disappeared without a trace in my working folder. I want to try to fix it. The file was located in the /home/stas/ folder and was called script.sh
I read on the Internet how this is done.
Installed scalpel. However, it turned out that it restores a very limited list of file types. Mostly media. My type was not there.
Next, I installed photorec. There are many types of files, but mine was not there either.
Next, I installed gparted and its gpart extension. As far as I understand, he cannot restore data from the disk where the OS is installed, and he restores everything in a row indiscriminately.
Friends. I need to restore just one small file. I know where it was and what it was called. It seemed to me that this should have been a very simple task. But now I'm afraid that I will erase this file with my experiments before I restore it. Please help me find the simplest solution.
Thank you!

Answer 1

Installed scalpel

By doing this, you most likely have already killed the possibility of recovery. The first thing to do after deletion was to remount the partition to read-only. Do not install anything under any circumstances, disable all programs that use the disk, etc. Now the file, with a 95% probability, has been overwritten several times.
In addition, if you have an SSD, everything is much more difficult with recovery.

Answer 2

1) DO NOT INSTALL ANYTHING on the disk where the file disappeared (otherwise the file may simply be overwritten), do everything from Live USB
2) If the file system is fat *, ext *, NTFS - data can be restored via testdisk