Recover Trash in KDE
 

Hi there!

I made a wrong click yesterday... "Move to trash" in the contextmenu of the trash-icon on the KDE Desktop. And zzzpppp it was gone from the desktop!

Can someone give me a hint how to get it back onto my desktop? Thanks

Sascha.

If you moved to trash you should be able to see it in you r trash-can (icon on desktop: double click --> will open and then drag back to the desktop)

If you don't see the Trash-can, open a terminal (konsole) and type:
$ cd ~/.Trash
$ ls -l

This will give you a list of what's in your trash-can. Then to move it back to where you want it:

$ mv [filename] [location]

e.g. "mv textfile.txt ~/Desktop"

Unfortunately there is no 'restore' function that will automatically put it back where it was, so you have to tell it that.

Thanks for your answer...

But I think I maybe have emptied it ... already :-) I found it in some menu KDE puts on the Desktop in a newer version (3.9....) "System" ... I thought I could copy it to the desktop but it didn't work ... but what worked was "Empty Trash" :-)

oops, empty trash is a very definitive move in linux. Undoing a delete is virtually impossible. Hope it wasn't too important!

There was nothing important in the trash ... except for the trash itself :-)

Originally I just wanted to empty it, but mis-clicked and moved the trash into the trash :-) And later I emptied it somewhere in konqueror ... I didn't have the idea to simply recover it... damn ... :-)

This, quite simply, shouldn't be possible, I did the same thing, so it is possible, but it really, really shouldn't be possible.

(why create a desktop at all if you're not going to focus on it being a proper desktop?)

Anyhow....

Isn't there anything in ~/.local/share/Trash/files

That seems to be where all my crap ends up after being deleted. Although, I usually just bypass the trash and just get rid of it altogether.

John