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Broken AOS-5.1 Trash Can

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Tom:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on January 13, 2024, 05:12:42 pm ---The system should be doing automatic archives of the desktop, config.sys etc. Boot and when the white blob appears at the beginning of the boot, press F1, gotta be quick. You will get a menu including a list of archives you can restore. Usually 3 plus the original install one.

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You mean Alt + F1 ?

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Tom on January 13, 2024, 11:33:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on January 13, 2024, 05:12:42 pm ---The system should be doing automatic archives of the desktop, config.sys etc. Boot and when the white blob appears at the beginning of the boot, press F1, gotta be quick. You will get a menu including a list of archives you can restore. Usually 3 plus the original install one.

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You mean Alt + F1 ?

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Right.

ivan:
Hi Andrew,

It appears you have two problems.  The first is the trash can which I assume is a feature of Aos- 5.1 because I don't have it on any of my Aos-5.0.7 computers (I don't have Aos-5.1).
The second is why you are using it?  My experience with the windows computer problems of friends usually start with the trash can.  I have never seen a valid use of it - there are ways of undeleting files if you haven't overwritten them.

Now to your main concern - that of losing all the effort you have put in to get Aos to where you want it, for that you can do what I do - use DFSee to make an image of your boot partition plus all the other partitions for work and storage you have and store them externally to the computer (dare I say nas box).  By having a dedicated boot partition you can update it, even totally replace it without losing your work.   

Attached is the layout of the three hard disks of my main computer to give you an idea of what can be done.

David Graser:
Personally, I like the trashcan.  For those that don't want to use the trashcan, right click to open its properties page

Then on the first tab which is labeled "Trash can", check "Always delete immediately (never use trashcan)

 XWorkplace will perform all delete operations directly, without moving the objects into the trash can first.

David Graser:
yes, you can. 

On my system, I use the trashcan for deleting wps objects.  For all file deletion, I use FM/2 for deleting files and directories.  Its default is to bypass the trashcan.  I can use it to do WPS delete, but never have.

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