Please Help! Documents Folder Gone

**seanbw** · March 19th, 2010

Originally Posted by lian1238

You can run nautilus as root and do it graphically:

Code:

gksudo nautilus

Or you can move it back to your home from the commandline:

Code:

sudo mv /root/.local/share/Trash/files/Documents/ ~/

How can I delete a file or folders that are duplicated? Is there a delete command that uses the -u option that I can use? No that works with cp or mv but I don't know how to script that?

**seanbw** · March 20th, 2010

I am really grateful for everybody that helped. I've got my folder back.Thank you very much all of you.

**anksush** · March 20th, 2010

do you want to try this
gksudo nautilus
then in nautilus goto goto view and select Show hidden files.

Now browse your way through to Trash - .local/share/Trash/files

you should now be able to see and copy paste it in graphical mode...

HTH !!!

**lian1238** · March 20th, 2010

Originally Posted by seanbw

I am really grateful for everybody that helped. I've got my folder back.Thank you very much all of you.

I'm so relieved for you!

But it's weird that root deleted your files though. A security issue or malicious program/script? You might want to run history and see what commands were executed that caused this.

**seanbw** · March 21st, 2010

How do I run history? What script do I run? I am now very well scared that I am now nightly backing to a separate hdd. I was also thinking of automating the backup but I need to open a separate thread for that.

**lian1238** · March 21st, 2010

The command is just "history". Run it in a terminal and see if you can find any command that has "Documents" that was run before you started trying to find your Documents folder. Backing up is a good idea. I shall do the same.

**llamabr** · March 21st, 2010

I doubt it was something malicious. In fact, if you show us your history, we'll show you where you went wrong. Much more likely that you're running something as root that you don't need to, or else running root commands that you don't understand.

**cornelldekgm5** · January 7th, 2011

*Anybody can answer it? I'm still waiting for the answer.

**seanbw** · March 30th, 2011

I apologiise. Should have marked thread solved. Got the docs back. I did not run the history on time and could not get what went wrong but I suspect it is my pc.
Now I have five tgz files that I can "see" but are not there. I can't delete it using nautilus or dolphin or terminal even at root level.
Will mark thread solved.
This community is great. Sean