cd glitch?????

One of the goals I set for my self this year was to learn rust so that I could build apps with Tauri.

So I am working my way thrue the rust book when i encounter something very funny.

How is that possible? It appears that I went into the showcase directory then went back to parent directory but change into what appears like a totally random directory???

First step⌗

The first step when trying to figure why something went wrong in software is to try to replicate it.

From what I remembered all that I did up to that point was create a new directory because I was not sure if Cargo the rust package manager, would reinstall any library installed from a different project. After that I deleted the folder because it was no longer needed.

Wait, how did I eliminate the folder?

It all clicked. The issue was I would change directorys using vscodes terminal window but create and delete the folder thrue the buttons in vscode (i know mkdir exist its just that i happened to have my hand on the mouse at the time). Because I did not delete the folder thrue the terminal i completly forgot that the showcase directory no long exist because it had been deleted, how can you go up to the parent directory on a directory that does not exist?

What happens when you delete something on a computer?⌗

It appears that when you delete something atleast thrue a GUI that the file does not just dissapear forever, they end up in this directory

.local/share/Trash/files

I enter the list directory command and I fould hundreds of other files and folders that I had deleted weeks prior. Its in the name /Trash/files/. This appears to be some sort of trashcan. Knowing this I try to replicate it and it does the exact same thing, noting that it only works when deleting thrue the gui but not thrue “rm -rf”.

This is when I ask chatgpt and it points me to freedesktop.org and the trash specification. This little 10 minute side tangent from learning rust was fun.

ok bai.