Ubuntu – Why is there no more ~/.Trash

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I remember the nice mv somefile ~/.Trash command but that folder does not exist on newer Ubuntus. Does anyone know why?

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According to the freedesktop.org Trash Specification:

For every user a “home trash” directory MUST be available. Its name and location are $XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash ; $XDG_DATA_HOME is the base directory for user-specific data, as defined in the Desktop Base Directory Specification.

If the environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, ~/.local/share is used. So by default, the trash folder is ~/.local/share/Trash.

Regardless, the easiest and best way to trash a file from the command line is to use the trash Install trash-cli command.

Use it like you would use rm:

trash somefile.txt

This is better than just mv'ing a file into ~/.local/share/Trash because it stores metadata such as where the file was originally so you can restore (un-delete) it if need be.

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You can bind the .Trash directory from the data partition to ~/.local/share/Trash.

mount --bind source destination

i.e

sudo mount --bind /media/sda2/.Trash ~/.local/share/Trash

Ubuntu – the “Templates” folder in the home directory for

If you drop any files in this folder, for example

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then when you right-click and create a new document, you can select any of these files as a basis for the new file - i.e. a template.

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For as long as I remember, this has always been a standard feature on many desktops such as Gnome.

If you have deleted the folder and need to restore this functionality:

gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Check that there is a line containing the following - if not, add this line.

XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"

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