how to recover lost files

[Darryl Clarke]

On 24/01/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> neil woolford wrote:
>
> >I can only agree with this.  It seems strange to me that one can't.
> >I've installed the Disk Mounter applet on my top panel to get round
> >this, but really do feel that the function should be available (probably
> >by right-click) anywhere that the drive shows as an object and
> >especially in the Places menu which appears to be meant for controlling
> >such things and then doesn't.  Any suggestions as to where, presumably
> >upstream in Gnome, such a thing should be lobbied for?
> >
> >Neil
> >
> >
> I've wondered too why it's not there - seems absurd. Automounting but no
> gui way to unmount. And now it's bitten me in the butt.
>
> I've just checked Dapper updated to this moment - and right-clicking
> under places gives a 'remove' option (and something else), which is of
> course blanked out for the usb drive.
>

For unmount option to show up in the right click menu you need to be
in 'Tree' mode on the side pane in nautilus, not 'Places'

'Places' is basically a list of bookmarks
'Tree' is the filesystem (and drives), which gives you unmount options.


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