A little help, to mitigate this problem, though not a complete solution: This help will provide access to your deleted files, as long as your trash is not fully functional yet.
The Trash folder can be accessed typing following:
cd ~/.local/share/Trash
The Trash folder has three subfolders:
files: here you find the deleted files info: here is the information about the original directory of each deleted file. expunged: (I do not know exactly its purpose)