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I promise I already searched for this!

The problem I am facing is that I deleted all of my directories, or at least all of the ones that showed up in Jupyter Notebook. Why, you ask? Because I am a fool.

TL;DR:

I think the crux of the matter is that /Desktop is not a recognized directory anymore. However, I also cannot create this directory. It is stuck in limbo.

Here is some code from terminal:

paul@Paul:~$ cd Desktop
bash: cd: Desktop: Not a directory
paul@Paul:~$ mkdir Desktop
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘Desktop’: File exists

MORE INFO:

As mentioned, I deleted everything that was showing up in my Notebook. My desktop is now devoid of all files, which have been relocated to Trash. However, when I try to recover them, Files fails to respond. It just freezes up. Now, Ubuntu both recognizes /Desktop as a file that exists, and also that it is not a directory. I had hoped that this approach would work, but since my system does not recognize /Desktop (I think this is the reason) it doesn't work.

I'm just looking to restore these files. I an see them in the Trash just fine, but I cannot get them back out. Thanks for any help!

PDCasey1
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  • Welcome top askubuntu! Have you considered simply copying and pasting the files from the trash to a thumb drive in order to recover them? You might find this Q & A useful. https://askubuntu.com/questions/102099/where-is-the-trash-folder – Elder Geek Jan 26 '21 at 17:19

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Regarding ...

paul@Paul:~$ cd Desktop
bash: cd: Desktop: Not a directory
paul@Paul:~$ mkdir Desktop
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘Desktop’: File exists

That means Desktop exists and is not a directory... so it is a file (like the last line tell you ;))

Do

ls -l Desktop

If it is a file checks its contents. If empty(!)

rm Desktop

After that go to the trash directory and check it contents; then find the place it should belong and use cp -R with the files and destination to copy them back.

Rinzwind
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