On 31/01/16 19:08, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Peter,
It sounds a bit odd that your dolphin utility is sayingthe file
already exists. Perhaps from the command line you could say
...$ cd ~/WhereItShouldBe
...$ ls -al \*XXX\*
or
...$ find . -name \*XXX\*
where XXX is a string you expect to see in the file name.
Following on from Andrew's post: if you know the name and location of
the file you lost, you should (hopefully) be able to go to a terminal
window and say
....$ cd ~/.local/share/Trash ( or local equivalent)
....$ find . -name MyLostFile
If that results in a path to a copy of your file, then
....$ cp pathToTrashCopyOfMyFile ~/theRightPlace/RestoredFileName
If the file was shown to exist in part 1 above and the copy fails then
that may indicate that the ownership or permissions have gotten
confused. Other than that though, you should ideally not need to go in
as root.
best regards,
웃
Victor Churchill,
Netley Abbey, Southampton
07970 844083
On 31 January 2016 at 16:06, Peter Merchant <madsmad...@netscape.net> wrote:
This morning I ran freefilesync as a backup program, but didn't have it
configured correctly. It has deleted some files and now my system is totally
not as I intended it.
I can get into dolphin and see all the files in the wastebasket, but every
time I try to restore a file it tells me that the file already exists and
won't restore it.
I am hoping that this is all I need to do, but I am not sure how to get into
the wastebasket from the Command line and force the restoring of the files.
Alternatively I could go to my previous backup, but again I am not sure that
it will overwrite the files.
Perhaps I need to do it as root?
Any advice welcomed.
Peter
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Thanks Victor,
I spoke with Clive this afternoon, and he suggested that I boot from a
live disk and then move the stuff from Trash. It didn't like it
initially, but using Dolphin as root worked. I have copied all of the
files back, but unfortunately have a bunch of folders in my home
directory that I think should be elsewhere. I didn't know where they
should be.
So it hasn't really helped yet, but I'm getting there I think.
Peter
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