Quote:
Originally Posted by scasey
There is not a way to see a list of files with ls (or nano) "that are no longer on the computer". Both things are showing you files that are on the computer.
will show you who owns the files and when they were created. Are they perhaps backup copies of files you've deleted in the past? Backups made before you deleted the originals?
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Thanks. I did not make any backups, and no, the files listed are not on the computer, at least no where visible to me. Here is what ls -la shows:
~$ ls -la
total 548
drwxr-xr-x 20 pell pell 12288 Jul 17 12:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 28 2018 ..
-rw------- 1 pell pell 44 Jul 17 09:21 .bash_history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 0 Jun 7 12:14 .bash-history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 1024 Jul 16 02:07 ..bash_history.swp
-rw-r--r-- 1 pell pell 220 Jan 27 2018 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 pell pell 3771 Jan 27 2018 .bashrc
drwxrwxr-x 9 pell pell 4096 Jul 18 00:34 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 25 pell pell 4096 Jul 17 12:17 .config
drwx------ 3 pell pell 4096 Jan 27 2018 .dbus
drwxrwxr-x 3 pell pell 4096 Jul 6 18:46 Desktop
drwx------ 2 pell pell 4096 Jul 18 00:59 Downloads
drwx------ 3 pell pell 4096 May 2 04:17 .gconf
drwx------ 3 pell pell 4096 Jul 4 02:10 .gnome
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 1024 Jul 16 01:50 .g.odt.swp
drwx------ 2 pell pell 4096 Jun 4 16:05 .gphoto
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 39 Jul 6 22:29 .gtk-bookmarks
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 1024 Jul 16 02:35 .g.txt.swp
drwx------ 2 pell pell 4096 Aug 31 2018 .gvfs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 0 Jun 13 06:14 .history
-rw------- 1 pell pell 279426 Jul 17 12:17 .ICEauthority
drwx------ 3 pell pell 4096 Jan 13 2019 .kde
drwxrwxr-x 3 pell pell 4096 Jan 27 2018 .local
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 73 Dec 11 2018 .~lock.FILENAME copy.odt#
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 73 Jun 22 06:35 .~lock.NETSTAT -NALP ROOT modified.odt#
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 73 Jul 14 09:40 .~lock.NAMEFILE.odt#
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 73 Jun 2 10:40 .~lock.pub1.odt#
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 0 Jan 21 08:03 .~lock.NAME OF FILE 2020 copy.odt#
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 0 Jun 25 05:42 .~lock.NAME OF FILE.odt#
drwx------ 3 pell pell 4096 Nov 29 2018 .mozilla
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 1024 Jun 11 18:57 .NADXXX.odt.swp
drwxrwxr-x 2 pell pell 4096 Jun 11 18:56 .nano
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pell pell 1024 Jun 11 18:57 .newfile.swp
drwx------ 3 pell pell 4096 Jan 27 2018 .pki
-rw-r--r-- 1 pell pell 655 Jan 27 2018 .profile
dr-------- 3 root root 4096 Jul 13 11:06 .protonvpn-cli
drwx------ 2 pell pell 4096 Jun 20 09:57 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 pell pell 0 Jan 27 2018 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxrwxr-x 3 pell pell 4096 Sep 11 2018 .thumbnails
drwx------ 5 pell pell 4096 Jul 14 12:09 .thunderbird
-rw------- 1 pell pell 664 Jul 12 06:13 .viminfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224 Jul 13 11:06 .wget-hsts
-rw-r--r-- 1 pell pell 0 Jan 27 2018 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 pell pell 25179 Jul 18 01:04 .xsession-errors