Unerase Files

[Brian Beattie]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:57 -0500, Jan Sneep wrote:
> 
> > You might want to check the .Trash folder (in your home directory, or
> > if it was on a specific partition (eg: external usb hdd)). I have
> > noticed that sometimes the files are moved to .Trash but the Trash can
> > stays empty.
> >
> > - Jensen
> 
> 
> Sadly no ... I couldn't find a ".Trash" folder in my Home folder, also when
> I did a search for "trash" it didn't find any folders with that in the name,
> lots of files, icons, gifs, etc, but no folders.
> 
> I then tried to "Move to Trash" a folder in my Home folder that I no longer
> need and it also didn't show up in the Trash.
> 
> There is a "Lost & Found" folder, but Nautilus won't display the contents.

lost+found is something else don't worry about that.  In general you
should not rely on being able to recover things from the trash directory
as it a hack and not relaible (it's not reliable on windows either).
I'm not familiar with the innerworkings of nautilus but I'm pretty sure
that when it puts a file in .Trash it will always put it in a .Trash on
the same filesystem as the original file.  One way to find all
the .Trash directories you have access to is with the command line
"find / -name '.Trash'".  Drop the " and capitalization is important on
Linux.

> 
> Jan
> 
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