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sfenster

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Jul 21, 2011
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Hi I was trying to delete unlock files on Trash. and I did sudo command on terminal sudo -rm ~ /.trash somthing like this. and quit finder and refresh finder after I refresh finder. it's all disappeared. after I reboot it erased all desktop file. and calander, mail data...application file was reset. anyone knows how to restore this? I already try datarescue, final data..
please let me know if anyone knows how to solve this..
 
That command doesn't remove anything. Pretty sure it doesn't do anything at all, actually.

Did you mean something like "sudo rm -rf". The remove command permanently deletes stuff. As far as I know, the only way to get stuff that's "removed" is backups. Do you use Time Machine?


In your example, you put "~" with a space after it. That is bad. You're saying "remove my home folder and this".
 
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