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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 76

thunar recent folder

is it common knowledge that  if you delete the files in thunar's recent folder that the actual files get deleted?

i just did this and i think i'm screwed now since they didnt end up in Trash.

any shot of recovering gracefully aside from going to my backups?

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 654

Re: thunar recent folder

The "Recent" folder is not actually a folder. It's just how Thunar displays history. I remember there used to be a way to clear it I think but I don't see it now.

As for your deleted files, your back ups are your best bet. Instead of deleting files you should right click and "send to trash".

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CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

Posts: 306

Re: thunar recent folder

If you use the 'Places" panel plugin , it has a clear option for recent.

callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 76

Re: thunar recent folder

man i had second OS and a separate HDD mounted when i deleted the files in Recent.  348 files from all over the place.  what a nightmare.  thankfully i had recent backups of everything.   still lost a few files because my rsync skills are rusty but 99% recovered is good news.

i think i assumed those were symlinks in Recent.  What's funny is in the last 4 years or so I've had Thunar I never came across it in Places.  I was just fooling around today and found it.  oh well.

Last edited by callmejoe (2023-10-14 03:18:13)

hreba

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Registered: 2022-04-25

Posts: 4

Re: thunar recent folder

I was not so lucky and lost some rather important files. I never use the trashcan but prefer to think before deleting anything. If I realize having deleted something erroneously, which happens a few times a year, I copy it back from another PC where I keep mirrors. But there the deleted files disappear too, obviously, at the next mirror-update.

Luring the user into deleting his own files, in another directory than where he seems to be, without any warning is the meanest attack to data security I have seen so far.