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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1017855" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Well, if you've already deleted a lot of OS system files, you're out of luck. That said, I don't know if you can delete what's currently in use (in terms of memory) so you may have a chance to salvage some stuff depending on what was deleted and in what order. When you had the million files being deleted, did it delete everything or did it skip over some stuff? What have you put in the trash? Do you know what the names of some of those files were?</p><p></p><p>I'd love to be more clear as to whether you can delete OS files but I'm not exactly in the mood to test whether you can or not from the Trash bin. I know you can if you use rm and force it but I won't go down that road. On top of this, you would have had to enter your password at some point if they were OS system files so you should have been aware of what was going on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1017855, member: 71075"] Well, if you've already deleted a lot of OS system files, you're out of luck. That said, I don't know if you can delete what's currently in use (in terms of memory) so you may have a chance to salvage some stuff depending on what was deleted and in what order. When you had the million files being deleted, did it delete everything or did it skip over some stuff? What have you put in the trash? Do you know what the names of some of those files were? I'd love to be more clear as to whether you can delete OS files but I'm not exactly in the mood to test whether you can or not from the Trash bin. I know you can if you use rm and force it but I won't go down that road. On top of this, you would have had to enter your password at some point if they were OS system files so you should have been aware of what was going on. [/QUOTE]
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