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Idea #60: Restore deleted items trash bin

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 11 August 08.
Written by dr88dr88 the 28 Feb 08 at 16:02. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Implemented
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The possibility to restore deleted files with a right mouse click in the trash bin in Gnome
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #60
Written by dr88dr88 the 28 Feb 08 at 16:02.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #60 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Selected solution (#2): Add a Restore option
Written by tenplus1 the 19 Apr 09 at 10:05.
By adding a restore option this would allow the selected files in the Deleted Items to be quickly placed BACK where they came from (fast) instead of copying the actual files from the trash to a different location (which takes time)...
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Selected solution (#3): Global Ctrl+Z functionality
Written by sanketmedhi the 21 Apr 09 at 10:51.
After deleting a file, you should be able to undo it using a global Ctrl+Z key combination, just like in the other popular OS.

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MighMoS wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 16:23
Isn't this happening with GIO and Hardy Haron?

zelut wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 16:30
Implemented, I believe, in Ubuntu 8.04.

dexae wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 17:30
In GVFS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Alpha5

Velvet Elvis wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 11:22
If this is implemented, there needs to be a shred option to go with it.


brettalton wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 16:05
Looks like we need a way to mark "Already implemented in Hardy" and then in the future, Hardy+1, etc.

brettalton wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 16:20
I also attached my related ubuntuforums.org thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595191

robfollett wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 17:42
I understand that this is implemented. However, does it include an option to "restore" individual files and folders from within the Trash, as opposed to everything in the Trash at once?

Kendall wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 18:13
I don't see what's wrong with things as they are in gutsy. Keep it simple.

SGusto wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 01:42
I agree with Kendall.

Dragging it out of the bin and dropping it is too much of a pain!? If this a big complaint, Ubuntu must be doing very well indeed.

Actually, it doesn't bother me at all not being able to 'restore' out of the recycle bin. When I throw something away in the material world I have to go fish out of the bin by hand - kind of like punishment for throwing something away you really shouldn't have. So the way it is now just seems kinda 'natural'

byw, I'd like to congratulate and thank all the people who've worked and dedicated themselves for so many years to bring Linux to where it is today. Kudos.

Gusto

alexandreracine wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 06:43
This is a request to the gnome team since the year 2000. Just to let you know.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41850
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/14412

gmarketer wrote on the 9 May 08 at 01:14
Restore is not simply dragging from trash. It is restore to the same place the file was deleted from. Like in Windows.

aysiu (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 23 May 08 at 20:24
I don't see how adding a restore option is different from keeping it simple.

If you never want to restore files, you can still empty the trash or drag files to new locations. You wouldn't even see the restore-from-trash option unless you right-clicked on the file in question.

Adding a restore-from-trash option does not make an already long list of options longer. It allows for an unused list (the context menu) to get used if one wants to. If you want the current functionality (empty trash or drag to new location), there's no need to right-click, so you wouldn't even see the restore-from-trash option.

It's not just Windows that has this. Thunar and Konqueror do as well. It's time Nautilus caught up.

Quarterly wrote on the 18 Jun 08 at 18:27
No offense to SGusto, but using a real life example of trash picking is a lame defense for a lacking feature in gnome.

Is it too much of a pain to drag things out of the bin? YES, IT IS. Especially when what you've deleted (or accidentally deleted) needs to be placed back in the file structure exactly as it was. Who actually enjoys navigating the file structure to determine where to drag something out of the bin? Seriously, this feature has been around since the windows 95 days. That was more than 13 years ago! How is such a basic feature continually being overlooked?

Actually, after looking at alexandreracine's link, it's really kinda funny that its taking 8 years and counting for the gnome team to figure this thing out. At this rate, I'm gonna have to say this ties Sun's 64-bit java plugin for epic fail.










Auzy wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 00:44
I agree with quarterly SGusto.

If some idiot drags stuff into the trash while you aren't looking, you wont know where it is front. A proper trash helps with that.

Linux is about Flexibility. We should provide as many options as possible to end users in a clean way. This can be done cleanly.

+1

Ryuzakii wrote on the 11 Jul 08 at 01:13
You can change around virtually everything in Linux, giving you unprecedented flexibility over Windows...but you still can't restore things from the Trash?

It needs to be implemented.

gjoellee wrote on the 21 Jul 08 at 08:55
Why don't you do something, developers?... do you see all the votes and duplicates?

jakethecake wrote on the 22 Jul 08 at 20:41
This will be fixed in the upcoming Nautilus version shipping with Gnome 2.22, Ubuntu 8.10.

=> http://blogs.gnome.org/cneumair/2008/07/22/gvfs-programmer-wanted/

jakethecake wrote on the 22 Jul 08 at 20:42
Correction, Gnome 2.24


ElijahLynn wrote on the 11 Jan 09 at 06:48
Thanks so much for this feature! I recently started using OS X and was so frustrated they did not have this feature!

slashdotaccount wrote on the 9 Mar 09 at 14:56
Can anyone tell me how this works? I use intrepid and if i put something in the bin, I cannot restore it with one click...
Thanks!

slashdotaccount wrote on the 9 Mar 09 at 15:00
Sorry, I found it. You have to click on the file directly! Thanks for this, this is awesome! :)

Maybe an option in the trash windows itself, so you can find it more simple. To have to search in the context menu is not very intuitive. Maybe a button next to the "delete trash" or similar :)

sanketmedhi wrote on the 5 May 09 at 04:36
I am using Jaunty and I do not believe that the Ctrl+Z functionality for undo delete has been implemented.


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