There is no restore option when I right click a folder in my trash. Did I do something wrong with my computer to cause it to do away with this option?
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How did the folder get there? You can generally only 'put back' if the Finder deleted something, not if a script or app deleted it. – Tetsujin Dec 02 '20 at 17:55
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@Tetsujin now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I deleted them from the Visual Studio Code app. – fairground Dec 02 '20 at 18:15
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Let me throw together a rough answer, in that case... – Tetsujin Dec 02 '20 at 18:31
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Does this answer your question? How to recover file from Trash – mmmmmm May 01 '21 at 21:24
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From comments, it appears the folder may have been deleted by an app/script.
I general, the only time the Put Back flag is created is if the file/folder is deleted in the 'normal' way, by the user themselves, in Finder.
I'm afraid i don't know how it does this or the spec of the tagging it uses - perhaps someone smarter than me could provide analysis on that - I just know this through empiricism.
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2This post touches on how the Finder "knows" where to "Put Back" a file—essentially, it adds an entry to the Trash's
.DS_Storefile. Try runninghexdump -C ~/.Trash/.DS_Storeto see the stored entries (though also note that there are other.Trashfolders on disk, like in iCloud Drive, that have their own.DS_Storebut are aggregated by Finder into the one "Trash" view). – aaplmath Jan 01 '21 at 20:51