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I deleted a huge folder containing mp3 & mp4 songs by mistake. I thought it will be in trash but when I opened it, the folder wasn't there but when I opened the properties of trash I saw that it contained +2000 folders of 55 GB. The files are not visible somehow. Can you please tell me how to recover it? I don't want this huge loss of my favourite items.

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    How did you delete them? and do you have a backup at all?
    – Tim
    Jul 30, 2014 at 18:10
  • It might be that the Trash folder is now so large it takes a long time to load - so you could open the Trash folder and see if it loads
    – Wilf
    Jul 30, 2014 at 18:11
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    @Wilf, sorry too used to chat!
    – Tim
    Jul 30, 2014 at 18:13
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    @Wilf sometimes a dialouge says "This file is to large to be moved to trash, do you want to permanently delete it". Did this pop up @Annie?
    – Tim
    Jul 30, 2014 at 18:17
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    Nautilus is the the default file explorer.
    – Dan
    Jul 30, 2014 at 18:42

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You can view hidden files in Nautilus using the keyboard combo ctrl + h. Or using the menu: select View->Show Hidden Files.

If the files were deleted from an external drive they may be on that drive in a .trash hidden directory

As a ditch effort; if you know the name of a file (a good unique name) you can use the following to search the whole filesystem

sudo find / -iname "*<good file name>*"

<good file name> should be replace with a filename but keep the * on each side

That will take a while to run.

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