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Recover files from corrupt VirtualBox VM

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Systems programmingOperating systemsLinux

Demonstrates how to recover files and websites from a corrupted VirtualBox virtual machine after a failed OS upgrade.

So after an Ubuntu OS upgrade your VM is down and you can't SSH. Getting the files might not be as easy as you hoped, but here's a quick guide for recovering your website.

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On “How do I completely clean-up or reset a Python installation on Ubuntu”

Helpful and cautionary tale, be a good idea not to delete it I think... I'll assume it was the profanity that got it deleted so I've edited it out. !!!! WARNING !!!! If you're like me and you think ah shur I'll do an 'apt list --installed | grep -i python' and then 'apt purge -y' all that crap, well, maybe don't. Now my entire system is doo-doo. It all seemed fine until I rebooted and now there is no network connection, netplan and a bunch of other stuff is just gone. No recovery possible. Actually it looks like it was an 'apt autoremove' AFTER I'd done the above that actually removed netplan. And all because I wanted to remove multiple python versions to get over those gosh darn i…
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