Recover files from server after catastrophic failure

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I was trying to move my nextcloud files to another cloud directory (icloud) on my mac, but when I realised that the client started to sync the deletions with the server I interrupted with ctrl-z.
Now I end up with no data at the new target and a substantial loss of data on the client and the server, running the last version of NC 22 on dietpi.
Unfortunately, I also don’t have a recent, complete backup of the data. Only 15-20 minutes after this happened I called somebody to physically turn off the server.

My question is: Can I recover the deleted directories and the containing files from the server?

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You could try look in the trash bin.

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Thank you, the files seem to be there. But is there any way to recover the folder structure? So far it seems that the structure is almost flattened.

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In the webui if you restore the folders first then the files it should put them back in the right place as far as I am aware. That said I haven’t had to recover this way before so you’ll have to make copies of all your data and experiment