From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2018-08-18, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   > On 2018-08-18 07:32, Elvish wrote:   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   >> I'll try to be more clear. The babble is all about this being my first   
   >> successful experience with plasma since it was first adopted by SUSE, and   
   >> I've been really enjoying having it work as well as it ever has for me,   
   >> but I still keep Mate installed just in case.   
   >>   
   >> Sure enough, in Plasma, I screwed up and deleted two trash folders, the   
   >> one on the desktop and the one in the list in the "computer" column (in   
   >> Mate) on the left column, headed PLACES btw.   
   >>   
   >> I couldn't find anything re 15 and this problem, and I can't find any way   
   >> to recover the folders. When I delete something in Plasma, it deletes,   
   >> but disappears, yet shows up in the Mate trash folders as you would   
   >> expect.   
   >>   
   >> The only near fix I've read online is create another user, but that seems   
   >> not to be as simple as I'd like it to be. Of course, I could re-install   
   >> the whole system, but I'd rather use Mate than go through the hassle of   
   >> installing all my software again.   
   >   
   > Creating a new user is far easier than install again.   
   >   
   > An alternative is to delete all the plasma config directories, but as I   
   > don't use plasma I'm unsure which they are.   
   >   
   > Also reinstalling might not work on openSUSE, because /home is a   
   > separate partition and normally not re-formatted on install.   
   >   
   >   
   > On other desktops, recreating the missing file might repair the issue,   
   > but with plasma I wouldn't know.   
   >   
   > A possibility is creating a new user, login using plasma, log out, then   
   > compare (probably in text mode) the created directories and files, then   
   > copy the structure over to the old user (using 'mc').   
   >   
      
      
   Well, what I would try first is to create the file I mentioned in   
   Desktop and see if that works. Then if it does not, you can try to go   
   the new user route. I am sure that it is possible to recreated it, but I   
   must admit I do not know how at present.   
      
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