[nmglug] Mistake while emptying trash -- help

[Mark Galassi]

Make sure you have fully logged out, or maybe even rebooted, since some processes in your desktop might keep an open file descriptor on a directory (unlikely but possible), so you want to restart that.

I don't understand at all what you are saying; it appears form your words that files both appear and don't appear.  But in any case, the graphical interface is not the final arbiter of whether files are around or not.  After your reboot (if you had not yet done that), do a:

1. Make a file called junk_special_name.txt with some junk in it.

2. Delete it the way you are saying, when you say you cannot then find it.

3. Run "find ~ -name junk_special_name.txt" at the shell and see what comes up.  You can also try the very unlikely to be relevant "sudo find /tmp/ -name junk_special_name.txt"