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

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by rabbit2345 (Post 3446064)

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.

It happens to everyone...