newbie's question on file deletion and restoration.

[NoOp]

On 08/06/2008 11:07 AM, Zhengguo Xu wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> 
> works like a charm! thank you very much Tyler!!
> 
> 

There also was a bug regarding trash issues:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/203195
so make sure that your system is updated with the latest patches &
hopefully you won't have problems with it in the future.