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Where did my Recycle Bin go?
I accidently deleted a file and went looking for the Recycle Bin to restore it. I am pretty sure I've seen a Recycle Bin associated with my User account, but it was nowhere to be found. I have the Re...
It appears I have now have a Recycle Bin for my user account, but I'll have to see if it sticks over a period of time. I tried to get it to appear by disabling and later re-enabling the "Recycle Bin for private home shares" item in hte Security > User & Groups Accounts > Preferences settings page. That didn't appear to work.
Then, out of frustration I created a folder in the top directory of my user account named "Recycle Bin". I then went into a subfolder and created and deleted a small text test file. Magically that deleted file showed up in the Recycle Bin folder. The Recycle Bin contained the (mostly empty) folder where I had created the test file. The contents of that folder contained the delted file and nothing else.
I could not recover the accidently deleted file from a day ago, but at least I will have a Recycle Bin for my ReadyNAS user account going forward. Or so it seems.
StephenB wrote:SMB is what file explorer uses. Maybe try enabling the viewing of hidden files in explorer?
Been there, done that. What I am wondering is if I am connecting to the ReadyNAS with the wrong account. Right now it appears I am connected via the admin account. That allows me to view all the files and shares on the ReadyNAS. It doesn't seem to allow me to log into my ReadyNAS user account with my username and password for my ReadyNAS user account. I am going to continue to explore this theory.
It appears I have now have a Recycle Bin for my user account, but I'll have to see if it sticks over a period of time. I tried to get it to appear by disabling and later re-enabling the "Recycle Bin for private home shares" item in hte Security > User & Groups Accounts > Preferences settings page. That didn't appear to work.
Then, out of frustration I created a folder in the top directory of my user account named "Recycle Bin". I then went into a subfolder and created and deleted a small text test file. Magically that deleted file showed up in the Recycle Bin folder. The Recycle Bin contained the (mostly empty) folder where I had created the test file. The contents of that folder contained the delted file and nothing else.
I could not recover the accidently deleted file from a day ago, but at least I will have a Recycle Bin for my ReadyNAS user account going forward. Or so it seems.
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