On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:25:41 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: >On Saturday, 2016-06-11, 09:09:47, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >> My method is keeping the name of a file to be deleted and then >> performing 'find ~ -name <deleted_file>'. > >How does your method distinguish between files with the same name from >different locations?
The OP could create an unique file and if needed move it to a dedicated device, before putting it into trash and searching it by command line. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ls test* ls: cannot access 'test*': No such file or directory [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ touch test-file-$(mcookie).txt [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ls test* test-file-5f63e406b9717f180b2db14daf92d23e.txt [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ touch test-file-$(mcookie).txt [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ls test* test-file-5f63e406b9717f180b2db14daf92d23e.txt test-file-d67c48329cafda2d282bf1bf17d1d967.txt The OP only needs to find the location of trash by an unique test file. I wonder if the OP used the KDE file manager, to "delete" something from perhaps a camera connected by USB and maybe included by a virtual file system. Now the problem might be, how the KDE file manager behaves when using e.g. the "delete" key on the keyboard and if there is a trash icon visible, that perhaps illustrates that something is inside the trash. I would expect that there is a trash icon, but what is the content provided by the trash icon? Is it showing the content of all trash directories of all mounted file systems? IOW ~/.local/share/Trash/ and /mnt/foo/.Trash-1000/ or does it provide the content of one trash directory only? I never used trash, even when I used desktop environments. For the last desktop environment I used, Xfce4, I even didn't install the virtual file system thingy. Nowadays I don't use desktop environments at all, I just use some apps from desktop environments. The OP should be aware, that there is a learning curve when using a desktop environment. For my taste a window manager and command line are much easier to use, but they have a learning curve too. If a user does use trash, the user needs to learn how to use trash. I guess there's absolutely no need to know where the trash directories are. Regards, Ralf ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
