[plug] deleted home directory files

Jonathan Young jonathan at pcphix.com
Fri Feb 10 10:22:58 WST 2006


On 2/9/2006, "simon" <simon at chrome64.org> wrote:

>Milan Pospisil (pospim at gmail.com) wrote:
>> Using GUI  Click on the Personal Files icon opens  file:/home/username
>>  under Konqueror and then selected the file-> right  button click->
>> selected Delete on the drop down menu->left button click.
>> According to the drop down menu Delete means Shift+Delete, while Move
>> to Trash means Delete. That was the one I was aiming for, but made a
>> mistake with the rodent as these two are right next to each other
>
>Wow. Someone forward this to the konq usability team :)
>
>Im afraid your files are most likely gone.
>
>Dont feel too bad, I recently downloaded 13G of mame roms (semi-legitimately,
>I was only going to use the roms to repair PCBs I own) and accidentally
>deleted the lot about 30 seconds later.....

So the solution to your mistake is to download them again and waste some
bandwidth whereas the solution to Simon's unique personal files being
deleted is to...

Crap.  Hope you had a backup Simon!

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