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I stupidly deleted my home folder in Natty. It's still in the trash but I cant get there to undo. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Searching I couldn't find any solutions because I don't think anybody else did that yet. I can only use the command line at this stage, and I'm noob at that.

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err.. it might actually be gone. You see, trash is stored in /home/<yourname>/.trash. If you're home directory is gone, the trash went with it. How did you delete it? EDIT: apparently .trash is out dated, 1 sec – user606723 Jul 22 '11 at 17:57
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1 method I think that will work: use a live CD. Then you can use this to go to command line and move the files back from trash to your home. – Rinzwind Jul 22 '11 at 18:29
Add result of command ls /home .Maybe extundelete will help, extundelete.sourceforge.net. Just dont use that disc if you want your files restored. – Denwerko Jul 22 '11 at 20:03
thanx, will try try all suggestions just now, what happened is that I saw a file in my home dir called windows, opening it I saw a complete copy of my home dir.It was an ordinary file between my other files not hidden not ./ so I thought this is strange an I deleted It, and that is where my woes began, – Oortjies Jul 23 '11 at 7:49
Logging in I get this:-1st screen:- could not update ICEauthority File/home/user//.ICEauthority. 2nd screen:- There is a problem with the configuration server (usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconfig-sanity-check-2exited with status 256) 3rd screen _:- nautilus could not create the following required folders:/home/user/desctop/home/user/nautilus, Before running nautilus, please create these folders, or set permissions such that nautilus can create them. Some how I got a file list and saw my home dir is still there can remember how but I think It was with "ls" command. Hope this help you people a bit more. – Oortjies Jul 23 '11 at 7:50
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It does not need to use Live CD, simply do a cp command or nautilus /path/to/trash and do copy with the GUI.

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This answer doesn't seem helpful. Explaining what is the exact path to trash would be important. – viyyer Feb 5 '12 at 17:54
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I got the same three problems

1st screen: could not update ICEauthority File/home/user//.ICEauthority.

It's possible that you were using a graphical application running as root that has updated your ICE Authority file with root permissions.

Try the following in a terminal session:

sudo chown $USER:$USER .ICEauthority

sudo chmod 0644 .ICEauthority

I tried this I was able to get out of this issue.

2nd screen: There is a problem with the configuration server (usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconfig-sanity-check-2exited with status 256) nautilus could not create the following required folders:/home/user/desctop/home/user/nautilus

Try executing this in terminal:

sudo chmod 1777 /tmp

I hope this may solve the issue. I haven't tried this.

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Did you try the bootable CD? Rinzwind is correct. One way of doing this is by using a live CD. Boot the OS, mount the disk, and navigate via Nautilaus or a terminal to /media//user/.local/share/Trash Locate your data and move it back.

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