Download folder gone

**Subzero01** · 02-Jun-2015, 18:45

Hi
I have lost my Download folder, it is no longer visible in the Home directory, I was moving a file from the Download directory into a another, drag and drop . A dialogue box flashed up an disappeared i did not have time to read it, then the download folder was gone and i was in the home directory. It is not int he trash. Where did it go and can I get it back.
Thank you

**gogalthorp** · 02-Jun-2015, 19:30

Hard to say where it went. Were was the destination??

You may need to run fsck on the partition if it is corrupted. You can run it while mounted but it can only fix things in an unmounted partition so you would need to do that from an externally booted Linux. In the mean time avoid any changes to the home partition until you run the diagnosis.

**Subzero01** · 02-Jun-2015, 19:32

I have found it ( big sigh of relieve) it when't to "home/user/.local/trash/files/Downloads" I don't know how or why but at the moment i am coping the directory back.

**deano_ferrari** · 02-Jun-2015, 19:58

Originally Posted by Subzero01

I have found it ( big sigh of relieve) it when't to "home/user/.local/trash/files/Downloads" I don't know how or why but at the moment i am coping the directory back.

A timely reminder to backup anything that is important to you.

**nrickert** · 02-Jun-2015, 20:34

Originally Posted by deano_ferrari

A timely reminder to backup anything that is important to you.

I sometimes explain to people why I backup:

I backup because I know that some day when I am not looking, someone will delete a whole bunch of important file. And I even know who that someone is. It will be me doing something dumb.

I would say that this one is a case in point.

**hcvv** · 03-Jun-2015, 00:56

Originally Posted by nrickert

I backup because I know that some day when I am not looking, someone will delete a whole bunch of important file. And I even know who that someone is. It will be me doing something dumb.

This should be in a nice font opposite of every computer user right above the monitor!

And it should go flashing whenever (s)he starts working as system manager/administrator (by typing the root password).

**baskitcaise** · 03-Jun-2015, 06:24

Subzero01 donned his tin foil hat and penned:

>
> Hi
> I have lost my Download folder, it is no longer visible in the Home
> directory, I was moving a file from the Download directory into a
> another, drag and drop . A dialogue box flashed up an disappeared i did
> not have time to read it, then the download folder was gone and i was in
> the home directory. It is not int he trash. Where did it go and can I
> get it back.
> Thank you
>
>
You can try andinstall "locate" or "mlocate" let it build a db then use
that, see the man page once it is installed

zypper in mlocate

Then when installed:

locate Downloads

might find it for you????

but if it has been deleted then I am afraid it is gone, Linux is a cruel
system sometimes till you get used to the fact that it does exactly what it
says on the tin.

HTH
--
Mark
Nullus in verba
Caveat emptor
Nil illigitimi carborundum

**hendersj** · 03-Jun-2015, 08:13

On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 02:36:04 +0000, gogalthorp wrote:

> Hard to say where it went. Were was the destination??
>
> You may need to run fsck on the partition if it is corrupted. You can
> run it while mounted but it can only fix things in an unmounted
> partition so you would need to do that from an externally booted Linux.
> In the mean time avoid any changes to the home partition until you run
> the diagnosis.

It sounds like a drag-and-drop error, an fsck is probably not necessary.

Jim

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