Undelete In Linux

Manuel Arriaga writes "[To the editors: I am not a professional programmer, nor will I ever be one. My income does not depend on my computing/programming skills, and hopefully it never will. So promoting free software I wrote does not help me in any financial way, no matter how indirect. libtrash is free software (GPL2), and I distribute it for free from my website. I have nothing to gain from the increased exposure, except for knowing that I am helping others. And I know slashdot isn't freshmeat... With that out of the way:] I have seen this topic discussed in the LKML multiple times by now, and many more people asking in the newsgroups why "I can't recover my deleted file on GNU/Linux". Here is my answer to that question. libtrash gives Linux a real "trash can". And it has been doing so (with varying degrees of stability) for more than one year now. If you consider it appropriate, make this information public on slashdot."

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linux on the desktop

[redhotchil]

now we have almost everything we need:

[x] Trashcan support
[ ] Easy to use Windowing system
[ ] Standard software install system
[ ] Easy to use Windows filesharing
[ ] Easy support for video files and DVD
[ ] Desktop company support

Way to go LINUX!

Where's your sense of danger???

[netphilter]

Come on, recycle bins are no fun at all. Where's the fun in having the files you "delete" stored in a folder until you REALLY want to delete them. It's much more fun to delete files knowing that there's a chance you may need them in the future and have no way of retrieving them (unless you're responsible and back your files up, but then again, what's fun about being responsible?).

Recycle Bin vs Trash Can

[chill]

Way back when Apple sued Microsoft for ripping off the look of their interface, Apple lost. The ONLY thing they got the judge to concede was the Trash Can was theirs. Thus, MS changed to a recycle bin -- a sideswipe at the Apple-California neo-environmental stereotype.

The editorial cartoons of the time were great. One showed a picture of Jobs carrying a trashcan full of legal documents with someone commenting "At least the judge let you keep something to carry all that home in."

Re:I know you're kidding, but....

[Fastball]

[X] Easy to use Windowing system - KDE

You mean GNOME, right?

Re:So everyone is perfect?

[bacchusrx]

Would you like a trashcan that moves things to yet another trashcan when you empty it?

Well, that is--more or less--the way that actual trashcans operate ;)

bacchusrx.

Re:Not a solution- a landfill!

[Lumpy]

I have the solution! and it can be a HUGE moneymaker.

i prepose the e-landfill. an online service that you can configure your trashcan to use a daemon process (garbagemand) that automatically ships the contents of the trashcan via a secure protocol (rubbishtruck/garbagetruck.. as known as RT/GT) to the e-landfill.. there the deleted file can pile up forever or at least until it is full then we just open up another landfill!

Great idea!