On 08/01/2022 12.30, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 07.01.22 um 20:36 schrieb Michael Hamilton:
On Friday 07 January 2022, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi,
I am with OS 15.2/KDE and a very strange thing happened to me: all files (not the sub-folders, but the files in them) of my desktop folder were deleted without that I know why... ... I know that during this session my mouse began to be defective, a right click produced a double-click, but that shouldn't be able to produce such a command, isn't it?
Is there anything in the trash? Was some kind of file browser like dolphin running? Could it be that some phantom mouse click(s) sent everything to the trash, and then the desktop just created some new/empty folders as it might do when used for the first time.
There is nothing in trash, nor in user nor root...
There were 3 dolphin windows open and a bash console, but bash logs (user and root) don't show any command that could cause what happened :-(
The sub- and sub-sub-folders that remained emptied of files are my own folders with very personal names, nothing that could have been created automatically...
As much as I understand, a rm -r command would also have deleted the directories and not only the files within them, and to delete only the files I'd have to use a pipe with find or something like that - it would be quite complicated, I believe...
I cannot explain to my self what happened here. It's very strange and kind of frightening...
Yes, it is. mc: Change to desktop directory (or start with "mc Desktop") Search for all files (F9 / Command / Find file / --> use defaults, Panelize (Alt-L) or Alt-?, Enter, Alt-L Then mark all (press * on numeric keypad), delete (F8). Ie: mc Desktop Alt-?, Enter, Alt-L, *, F8 May be done with mouse, perhaps. Very chancy. I don't see any of that happening by accident. There are other GUI programs with some of the mc functionality, like Krusader. It does have search for files (ctrl-S). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)