newbie's question on file deletion and restoration.
Tyler Giddings
tgiddings at us.cyberscience.com
Wed Aug 6 17:37:44 UTC 2008
Zhengguo Xu wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have a question concerning file deletion and restoration and hope i
> can get some help here. thanks a lot.
>
> i deleted some files (in some folders) and when i tried to empty the
> wastebasket there's some error message saying i don't have permission to
> do that. when i check the permission setting, they are readable by owner
> and nothing else.
>
> so how can i reset the setting so i can empty the basket? i couldn't
> restore the files like what i would have done in windows. and i cannot
> cut these files and paste them somewhere to change setting (for the same
> permission issue). i was thinking on sudo chown or chmod but i don't
> know what is the path of these file. they are not in the 'lost + found'
> folder. (by the way, what is the purpose of this so called lost + found
> folder?)
>
> any suggestion?
>
> mank thanks.
>
Locate /home/user/.local/share/Trash. User would be your username. Check
to make sure you can read and write to this directory.
When the computer shuts down incorrectly usually due to a power failure
it will corrupt the files system. Any of those corrupted files fsck
finds and can recover will get moved into a Lost + Found directory.
These files may be incomplete but something important might have been saved.
Tyler Giddings
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