Deleted an SMB directory by mistake 🫥 I hit cancel, but could parts have gone?

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Any Dolphin developers around?

By mistake I pressed delete on a very important multi TB directory in this share in Dolphin. Dolphin said something like “moving to trash” and I pressed Cancel or Abort (or whatever the button says) within seconds.

The directory I pressed delete for is still there, but I really want to make sure nothing disappeared in the subdirectories of that directory.

So, I want to know how this functions. Could Dolphin have started to move files or subdirectories to Trash before it would have deleting the “root” dir I pressed delete for? And if so, where is this trash located? Or, did nothing happen as the directory I pressed delete on is still there? Hoping for the latter.

I have the share mounted at /var/home/username/mnt/sharename/ and it’s mounted with rclone and systemd unit files. When I check properties for a dir within this mounted share in Dolphin and it says “File System: fuse.rclone” in the General tab.

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And yeah:

Operating System: Aurora 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.10-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Will now enable some confirmations… :grimacing:

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Hi - not a developer, but if files were moved to a trash folder, they should be in either your home directory’s trash (~/.local/share/Trash/), or in a device-specific trash at /path/to/device/.Trash-1000/

And either way, the easiest way to be totally sure might just be to rsync from the backup for that directory to where it’s mounted now.

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Thanks! Would still love to hear a developer chime in explaining what happens when you abort a move to trash.

If only things were that easy. I was supposed to make do with a ZFS mirror for a few days… And yeah. Stupid. RAID is not a backup, I know…

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