recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

[funny.haha]

Dear All,

I am running GNU emacs version 22.2.1 on Ubuntu. When I am in DIRED 
mode, I can delete files by pressing SHIFT+D. My question is that: can I 
recover the deleted files in case of a mistake?

Obviously, the file is not in the Trash Can of Ubuntu. One work around 
is to associate "dired-recursive-delete' with perhaps some customized 
command that moves the file to the transh can. Does any one know how to 
do this?

Thank you for any pointer.

Kzhu

Re: recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

[Tim X]

"funny.haha" <funny.haha@live.ca> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> I am running GNU emacs version 22.2.1 on Ubuntu. When I am in DIRED mode, I
> can delete files by pressing SHIFT+D. My question is that: can I recover
> the deleted files in case of a mistake?
>
> Obviously, the file is not in the Trash Can of Ubuntu. One work around is
> to associate "dired-recursive-delete' with perhaps some customized command
> that moves the file to the transh can. Does any one know how to do this?
>
> Thank you for any pointer.
>
> Kzhu

don't use Shift+d. Instead, just use 'd', then when you have finished
marking all the files you want to delete with 'd', hit 'x' and they are
deleted. You are also prompted before the delete happens to confirm
thats what you want to do (with the list of files marked to be deleted
in a pop-up window.

Note that in Emacs 23, emacs will use a trash can by default. 

Tim

-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:19:08PM +1000, Tim X wrote:
 
> Note that in Emacs 23, emacs will use a trash can by default. 

Note that (at least in the current pre-releases) it's not the
default. Also, it moves the files to ~/.Trash, not to the newly
standardized ~/.local/share/Trash...

I wrote about this:
http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/05/using-systems-trash-when-deleting-files.html

Best wishes,
Dirk.

-- 
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland
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Re: recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

"funny.haha" <funny.haha@live.ca> wrote:

> Obviously, the file is not in the Trash Can of Ubuntu. One work around is to
> associate "dired-recursive-delete' with perhaps some customized command that
> moves the file to the transh can. Does any one know how to do this?

In Emacs 23 you can set delete-by-moving-to-trash.  Don't know about
Emacs 22.

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

[Davin Pearson]

On May 18, 11:59 am, "funny.haha" <funny.h...@live.ca> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am running GNU emacs version 22.2.1 on Ubuntu. When I am in DIRED
> mode, I can delete files by pressing SHIFT+D. My question is that: can I
> recover the deleted files in case of a mistake?
>
> Obviously, the file is not in the Trash Can of Ubuntu. One work around
> is to associate "dired-recursive-delete' with perhaps some customized
> command that moves the file to the transh can. Does any one know how to
> do this?
>
> Thank you for any pointer.
>
> Kzhu

Try my trashcan.el

http://davin.50webs.com/research/2006/trashcan.el.html

Re: recover files deleted in Emacs on Ubuntu

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

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>>>>> Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

    > On May 18, 11:59 am, "funny.haha" <funny.h...@live.ca> wrote:
    >> Dear All, I am running GNU emacs version 22.2.1 on Ubuntu. When I am in
    >> DIRED mode, I can delete files by pressing SHIFT+D. My question is
    >> that: can I recover the deleted files in case of a mistake?  Obviously,
    >> the file is not in the Trash Can of Ubuntu. One work around is to
    >> associate "dired-recursive-delete' with perhaps some customized command
    >> that moves the file to the transh can. Does any one know how to do
    >> this?  Thank you for any pointer.  Kzhu

    > Try my trashcan.el

    > http://davin.50webs.com/research/2006/trashcan.el.html

I know the question was about Emacs 22, but for completeness sake: Emacs 23
/can/ support the system's trashcan, with some small trickery.

  (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)

will move to to ~/.Trash; this is not where Ubuntu 9.04 keeps its trash
though; a simple solution is to symlink ~/.Trash to ~/.local/share/Trash/files. 

With Davin's solution, you could use 
   (setq trashcan-dirname "~/.local/share/Trash/files")
to get similar behavior for E22.

Also see:
http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/05/using-systems-trash-when-deleting-files.html

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland
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