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Smile.Hunter
Asked: 2011-07-28 02:30:14 +0800 CST

How to recover a file which was removed in nautilus when running as root?

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I'm new with Ubuntu and used the command sudo -s to become root and executed nautilus to open my Nautilus Elementary as root.

While managing my files, I wrongly pressed the "Delete" button on my important folder.

I thought that folder will going to Trash folder, but if I click on Trash (in nautilus running as root) my nautilus was immediately closed, with the below error in a terminal:

** (nautilus:30221): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_get_location: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(nautilus:30221): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_uri: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed ** ERROR:nautilus-window-manage-views.c:819:begin_location_change: assertion failed: (location != NULL)

On other user accounts, the trash folder seems to be in .Trash, but but in /root, there is no such directory.

Where is my folder that I deleted?

nautilus

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    open nautilus as root:gksu nautilus then, after entering your password, you will have the nautilus windows. press Ctrl+H to show the hidden files then go to /home/.trash-0 all your deteted files during your root session should be there.

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  2. .Trash is a hidden folder. If you cannot find it, try to open /root/.Trash manually. In a terminal, you can get a directory listing of it by running:

    sudo ls -lA /root/.Trash

    Never run as root unless you're sure what you're doing.

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  3. At least in Ubuntu 13.04 and above (not sure exactly when the switch was made), any files deleted in nautilus when running as root can instead be found in:

    /root/.local/share/Trash

    The actual files will be in a files directory, while some extra data (which stores information such as when the data was deleted and its original location) can be found in the info directory.

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