Files: Some improvements to make to the "delete file" experience

Created on 29 Oct 2019  路  6Comments  路  Source: files-community/Files

  • [x] Shift + del - permanently delete selected items
  • [x] By default it should ask you to confirm before deleting something (should have a check box saying "Dont ask again" and there should be an option in settings to turn off the message as well)
  • [ ] Add undo option to the right click context menu that is visible if there a delete action just occurred, this should have the ctrl + z shortcut.
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If possible, why not add an undo functionality (Ctrl-Z) as well?

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If possible, why not add an undo functionality (Ctrl-Z) as well?

In file explorer the shortcut for deleting selected items pemanently is currently shift+del so why will it be ctrl+shift+del here?

I wrote down the shortcut wrong! I edited the original comment to have the correct short cut.

Add undo option to the right click context menu that is visible if there a delete action just occurred, this should have the ctrl + z shortcut.

I looked into this and I didn't see any way to do implement it using C#, does anyone have any ideas?

@yaichenbaum Undoing a move to recycle bin (delete) probably requires access to part of the Windows Shell.

After looking into this, it doesn't look like there is anyway to restore recently deleted items without manually going to recycling bin. Since the other features were added I am going to be closing this issue.

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