Oopsie! Moved trash folder, a little problem for a kde4 newbie

Billgatus of Borg · 02-16-2009, 10:09 AM

For those of you who have a great deal more experience than I, this should be an easy one: I have been until recently running SuSE Linux Professional 9.2. Last week I upgraded to OpenSuSE 11.1. The install/setup went flawlessly on this old machine, but there has been a bit of a learning curve with the changes involved in migrating from KDE 3.2 to KDE 4.1.

While trying to make my desktop conform to my old desktop in KDE 3.2, I made a newbie mistake...I moved the trash file from the KDE kicker to the desktop. Rather than give me the option of creating a link, it moved the whole file. I later discovered that I could have RIGHT clicked on the Icon and had it do what I needed.

I haven't touched anything else, but I need to put that file back to where it belongs. Does anybody have any idea of how I can restore the file to where it goes without further damaging my user account?

Thank all of you for your input.

rabbit2345 · 02-16-2009, 04:44 PM

You didn't move the Trash folder, you just moved the wdget off of the taskbar. Unless you moved ~/.local/share/Trash to the desktop (highly unlikely) you are ok.

Billgatus of Borg · 02-17-2009, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by rabbit2345

You didn't move the Trash folder, you just moved the wdget off of the taskbar. Unless you moved ~/.local/share/Trash to the desktop (highly unlikely) you are ok.

Thanks for the 411. What fooled me was the fact that one of the trashed files were rather large, took a while to move. Thought it moved the entire folder to a different location. As I said above, there is somewhat of a learning curve. I probably should have migrated to Open SuSE 10.x before, and gradually adjusted to the changes, so that there would have been less to assimilate with this distro.

I am certain that other people have made some of the bone-headed errors that I have made. Perhaps a quick look at some other SuSE forums would be in my best interest.

Thanks again.

rabbit2345 · 02-17-2009, 04:08 PM

It happens to everyone...