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How to restore a user's .Trash folder
Authored by: zacht on Dec 20, '06 07:57:18AM
I can't guess what was the situation on your computer, but it *might* have been something like this: sometimes files are placed not in ~/.Trash, but rather in a different trash folder. See the description here:

http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/HowTo/Trash/page2.ws

(scroll down to "Other Trashes"). Specifically, /.Trashes/501 (where more generally 501 is the user-id) can be a trash directory, and if there is more than one volume mounted there can be similar trash directories on each volume. Perhaps your Desktop DB file was placed into /.Trashes/501?

By the way, the linked article has a really nice collection of trash-related tips!


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