Bug 731745

Summary:	Cannot restore from trash an individual file in a deleted directory
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	ccecchi, tbzatek, tsmetana
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Description Christopher Beland 2011-08-18 14:29:10 UTC

I deleted an entire directory to reset my source code checkout.  After restoring it from the repository, I realized I had deleted a critical file I had just created.  So I opened the trash, found the file, and tried to drag-and-drop it to my desktop.  I got the following error:

>>
Error while moving "recaptchaTestSuccess.php".
There was an error moving the file into /home/cbeland/Desktop.
[-] Show more details
Items in the trash may not be modified
<<

When I selected the file and clicked "Restore Selected Items" I got the error:

>>
Could not determine original location of "critical_file.php"
The item cannot be restored from trash
<<

There should be some way to restore the file to a location I specify.  In the end I restored the file by opening it from the trash and copy-and-pasting its contents.  I suppose it's also possible to copy the file from the right-click menu, but this is not intuitive and is suboptimal for large media files.  It could get someone stuck in a bad situation if there is not much room left on the drive.

nautilus-3.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64

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