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Strange file names in trash folder
See original GitHub issueHere is what I get in my (Ubuntu) trash folder after deletion and I cannot restore these files as well. Initially i called this file new.rb
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I think it’s because
trashwill rename deleted files to unique UUIDs instead of dealing with name conflicting. The filenames may return normal if your file manager reads original filenames from.trashinfofiles.Same here in Ubuntu 18.04 within WSL. Mind you this was happening when trashing files within the WSL environment, not a Windows directory.