I deleted by mistake a wallpaper to trash. I cut it out of trash and paste in to my "Pictures" folder. But now when I go to the pictures folder, the picture is nowhere. Its not even hidden. What can I do? Please assist.
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Well if you have a rough idea of the filename you can search your entire computer for it.
sudo find / -iname 'butterfly*.jpg'
Or if that's prohibitively exhaustive, you can do a more limited (but quicker) search of just your home:
find ~/ -iname 'butterfly*.jpg'
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Thank you, is there also options if you have forgotten the file name? Aug 30, 2013 at 10:07
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@Orosjopie No good options. You could just change the search to
*.jpg
and look at all the photos. And if you can't remember the extension, you'll need to look at *jpeg, *gif and *png too.– Oli ♦Aug 30, 2013 at 10:11 -
If it is a recent action, you can probably also search for recently changed files, right?– don.joeyAug 30, 2013 at 10:53