Add a 'restore missing files' view

[Michael Terry]

When right-clicking in a folder in nautilus, there should be a 'restore missing file' option or something like it. It would show you all the files that have ever been backed up in that folder, but that aren't there now. And let you restore them.

This is the compliment to the current 'revert to previous version' functionality, but presumably this is more frequently desired.

Perhaps, this could also check if there's a version in the trash? That would be interesting.

[Nice1 Bruvva (nice1bruvva)]

Where is the fix?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Right click on the empty space in a folder and choose "Restore Missing Files"

[Nice1 Bruvva (nice1bruvva)]

That context menu option does not exist regardless which folder I choose.
Nautilus does have revert to previous version option but never shows restore missing files.
Any suggestions? I tried reinstalling déjà dup. No effect

[dg1727 (dg1727)]

I am not able to find a Restore Missing Files option, either.

OS: Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal
File manager: Nautilus; I've tried both the distro version 3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 and
the PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3) version 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1~quantal1
Deja Dup: package version 24.0-0ubuntu1

Maybe I am missing some dependency?

Prompt suggestions will be appreciated. I am setting this up for a user who is very busy, and it is hard for this user and me to coordinate time for me to work on this.

[dg1727 (dg1727)]

In my case, the Nautilus window needed to be showing a folder that was in the backup set.

As long as that condition is met, the Restore Missing Files... menu option seems to work OK. Sorry for the user error.

[Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood)]

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 on one computer and 16.10 on another and this menu does not show up on either system.