A plugin for Obsidian that makes it possible to list, restore, and delete files in the .trash folder in your Obsidian vault. This is useful if you're having trouble accessing hidden folders, such as on iOS.
Important: this plugin works only with Obsidian's own .trash folder. It does not work with the system trash.
To enable this, open the settings and go to File & Links, then set Deleted files to Move to Obsidian trash.
Click the trash explorer icon in the ribbon or use Show trash explorer from the command palette. Then you can restore or delete files and folders with the buttons in the trash explorer view. It's also possible to delete all trashed files with the Empty trash command.
Items are restored to a vault location matching their location in the trash. For instance, .trash/Recipes/Belgian waffles.md will be restored to Recipes/Belgian waffles.md, creating any intermediate folders if they don't exist. If the restore path already exists in the vault, the item will not be restored; you'll have to rename the existing file to something else first.
This plugin is at the mercy of where Obsidian places trashed items, as it has no access to their original location. In particular, Obsidian always moves items to the root of the .trash folder, regardless of their parent folder structure, so any parent folders will not be preserved when restoring. For instance, trashing the file Recipes/Belgian waffles.md will move it to .trash/Belgian waffles.md, and restoring it will move it to Belgian waffles.md in the root of the vault.
As of October 2022, the Obsidian mobile app seems to add a dot at the end of folder names when trashing them. This is not related to this plugin.