Dumbest Thing I Ever Did!!

[cousinlucky]

So I was using nautilus this morning and trashed my desktop folder where I had all of my important stuff ( sudo commands, on line instructions, pictures, letterheads, everything ) and unlike windows Ubuntu does not have a system restore.
This Really Hurts!!

[oz]

PhotoRec and/or TestDisk are usually good tools for recovering lost data:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

You can't always recover your lost data with them, but they work quite often. Good instructions for using them can be found on their webpages above. I prefer running such utilities from a liveCD, like the Parted Magic LiveCD, or other similar live utility disk.

[elija]

Your data may be in the trash Lucky, if you don't have a trash applet use the file manager to look for /home/lucky/.Trash which is a hidden folder. It may be at /home/trash/.local/share/Trash, which is also hidden. Assuming that lucky is your username. Hopefully, you'll find your things in there.

Yeah it hurts but I don't know anyone who hasn't done it at some point.

[cousinlucky]

Oz, the tar file gets corrupted while downloading.

Elija what is the terminal command to open my files?

[elija]

Use nautilus. Press Ctrl + h to see hidden files. There will be a lot of them. You should see a .Trash or .local/share/Trash. You can simply drag and drop files out. There may even be a shortcut to your trash in the left pane of nautilus.

[cousinlucky]

Thank Elija! I used sudo nautilus and then pressed contol + h and I found the " desktop " folder at root/.local/share/Trash/files
but I keep getting the message that I do not have permission to handle them. Is there a way to overcome that?

[reginaldperrin]

I keep getting the message that I do not have permission to handle them. Is there a way to overcome that?

You can start nautilus as root from the terminal by typing "gksudo nautilus". This should give you the appropriate permissions to do what you want.

Hope this helps

[Rubberman]

Lucky,

I don't think I can add anything to the advice that the others are giving you. Hope you get it sorted out, PDQ!

-RM

[jayd512]

elija had it right here.
Unless you removed them via a terminal command, your files should be available for recovery.

[jayd512]

I just re-read all of your replies, Lucky.
Open a terminal. You will be in your /home directory.

cd .local/share/Trash

Once there, do

ls -a

Anything with nautilus in the name, you can cp back to your home directory.


sudo nautilus is not needed.