Hi Folks, Something's happened whilch puzzles me a bit; and also I don't know how I should deal with it.
What I did: 1: Insert a USB stick that I wanted to delete the files on. When it's Icon appeared on the Gnome desktop, I opened that. I could see the files stored on the USB stick, but the menu for each file (right-click on file icon) offered no explicit option to delete it, except "Move to Wastebasket".
So, for each file I did that.
2: I then unmounted the USB stick, removed it, and opened the Wastebasket (to empty the files out of that).
There I found two Icons: A: "Ted's Downloads" [folder] B: "Ted's Downloads (Copy") [folder]
I have no idea how they got there. When I look in them, they contain the files which are in my real "Ted's Downloads" folder. Some of these were on the USB stick too, but only a few of them.
My Dilemma: I do NOT want to destroy the real "Ted's Downloads". However, the only vaguely relevant Menu option I can find is "Empty Wastebasket". Presumably, this would destroy the real "Ted's Downloads" folder, since apparently that (with its full current contents) is apparently now in the Wastebasket, though still accessible both from its own Desktop icon and from the command line.
If, in the command line from /home/ted, I do:
$ ls -l .Trash total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 ted ted 4096 2008-09-17 20:42 Ted's Downloads lrwxrwxrwx 1 ted ted 19 2008-09-17 20:52 Ted's Downloads (copy) -> /home/ted/Downloads
and:
$ ls -l Desktop total 8 drwxr-x--- 2 ted ted 4096 2007-10-30 17:07 Downloads -rw------- 1 ted ted 474 2007-09-22 23:29 Google-googleearth.desktop lrwxrwxrwx 1 ted ted 19 2008-09-17 21:35 Ted's Downloads -> /home/ted/Downloads
What I want to do: Get "Ted's Downloads" out of the Wastebasket (if it's really there ... ) without destroying it, so that in future I can move other files to the Wastebasket and "Empty Wastebasket" without destroying "Ted's Downloads".
And: NO, I did not find any of the files I "Moved to Wastebasket" from the USB stick where I would have expcted to, namely at the top level of Wastebasket (i.e. Trash).
Any ideas, comments?
With thanks, Ted.
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