In a dual boot system with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 18.04, two partitions (let's call it the Data drive and the Media drive) are NTFS, and are accessible to both Windows and Ubuntu. To be able to access files on those drives via Ubuntu, I had to click on the Drive icon in Nautilus and Ubuntu would mount the partition onto /media/ and if I deleted any files from those partition, the files would go to Trash.

Since it was cumbersome to click the icon to mount it everytime, I wanted the partitions to auto-mount when I login to Ubuntu. I followed these steps and it works.

However, if I try to delete any file from the Media drive, the only file deletion option shown to me in the right-click menu is "Delete permanently".

How can I have the move to Trash option re-appear? Also I'd like to understand why it only allows permanent deletion?

Context menu delete option not found in Ubuntu 18. Do not like the extra steps of "Trash Can", want to flush immediately instead of having to take the stinky garbage out later. Have used that option since the first of the gnome/nautilus desktop iterations. Would like it back.

The wrong folder was blasted with shift-delete in Nautilus. I have an older version of the folder, but gap between the two is significant. This article indicates that shift-delete is 'permanently' deleted and not in the 'trash':

If you deleted the file by pressing Shift+Delete , or by using the command line, the file has been permanently deleted. Files that have been permanently deleted can’t be recovered from the Trash.

There are a number of recovery tools available that are sometimes able to recover files that were permanently deleted. These tools are generally not very easy to use, however. If you accidentally permanently deleted a file, it’s probably best to ask for advice on a support forum to see if you can recover it.

QUESTION

Is there a simple method / tool to recover the folder?

/home/username/blastedFolder

Simple methods are preferred, all suggestions are appreciated: Thank you. I have some experience using sysrescuecd, however, I am not sure if photorec is the right tool for the job. There must be a better tool / method!

Updates

• SSD device: dual boot Windows-10 + 16.04
• Running photorec from sysrecuecd on target partition

I was looking for a better way to securely clean free space in my ubuntu system. I found this link and there are some valuable advices to wipe free disk space. I have tried bleachbit method with free disk space option enabled. There are two problems with this method one its very slow and the other it eats up free disk space very fast.

I use bleachbit to clean my system once in every three days with free disk space disabled. This process deletes an average of thousand files per use and also the entire process is very fast.

This is more of a theoretical question; if I carry out this cleaning process in a month I would approximately delete about 10000 files/month. After this cleaning do I stll need to wipe my free space? This is my thinking, when I delete some files new files will be created in its place. When repeated this process the new files overwrite over the deleted files thus making file recovery impossible.

Is my thinking correct? Can this be considered as a secure way to wipe free space in linux/ubuntu system?

I know that the trashcan on Ubunutu Mate desktop performs a simple delete process, where one could theoretically recover the files after deletion. Is there an option to change that default functionality, and opt for using shred, or a shred like command to permanently delete files?