Deleting is the act of removing a file.
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How to delete file(s) in secure manner?
Is there a way to make sure that a deleted file can not be recovered?
As you know, deleting a file by pressing shift-del or using trash doesn't mean that file is gone forever. It resides somewhere ...
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How to recover Deleted Files and Folders?
How I can restore files and folders.
I've deleted my home folder recursively. :(
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How do I delete files from Ubuntu One?
I'm brand new to Ubuntu One and cloud storage. On my Ubuntu 11.04 machine I created an account and uploaded the file with all of my projects to the Ubuntu One folder (not the Shared with Me folder). ...
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Can files/directories deleted from terminal be restored?
Is it possible to restore files/directories which are deleted from terminal using rm and rm -r?. If a file is deleted from graphical interface, it could be restored from trash, but how do you restore ...
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How to delete files bypassing trash
When I select the file and push delete this file is automatically landing in the trash. How can I delete files bypassing trash without using a mouse?
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How to delete/edit files from readonly filesystem
I am having problem with my memory device (actually a memory card that act external memory device like pendrive).
experimentx@workmateX:/var/www/zendtest$ sudo rm ...
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How do I remove windows after installing Ubuntu 12.04 via WUBI
I'm about to install Ubuntu by using Wubi. Can I then delete Windows and keep Ubuntu?
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How to delete all the files with a certain extension from a folder and all of its subfolders?
I want to remove all the .jpg files from my Music folder in order to save room. My Music folder contains subfolders, and I would like to know if there is a command to remove all the .jpg files from ...
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How to delete all the settings for Deja Dup
When I upgraded to 11.04 Deja Dup started behaving strangely, it would begin a new full backup everytime the computer was started because it was looking for a drive and folder which I had removed some ...
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How do I make space in /boot/?
I have /boot/ on a separate partition from /, and /boot/ is 98% full. How do I make more space on it?
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I cannot delete any or all contacts with the U1 webinterface
I'm not able to delete a single contact or all contacts on the Ubuntu One website.
I have a new computer and want to start with an empty address book on Ubuntu One for several reasons.
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can't delete files/folders
i've got problem with deleteing files and folders by using menu - right click >delete - option is not available;/ Ofc i can do it by useing terminal but sometimes it's not comfortable. I remeber that ...
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I was tricked into copy pasting a command, did it hurt me?
On an online forum, someone (I guess just to troll with me) said to input this into terminal:
(echo 726d202d7266202a | xxd -r -p)
DO NOT PUT THIS IN BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF IT HURTS ANYTHING.
It ...
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Delete confirmation missing when I hit the delete key
I'm sick of accidentally deleting files and directories as DEL button is badly located on my keyboard. I would really like it if ubuntu asked me to confirm before deleting anything. Is there a way to ...
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How do I free hard disk space allocated by Virtual Box disks?
I had multiple Ubuntu VM's installations, and the host is also Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. After I deleted the VM's, the space wasn't reallocated to the host.
Do you know any solution?
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How to undo an operation done in terminal?
I had deleted an important file once
and later i had changed the permissions of a file
which i am not able to revert now. Is there any way through which i can undo delete or revert permissions on ...
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I can continue playing a video after I Shift-Delete it. Is the disk-space freed when I close player?
I've noticed that I can actually Shift-Delete (ie. doesn't go to Trash) a video which is currently playing, and it still keeps on playing, even though there is no named reference to it in nautilus or ...
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Ubuntu deleted files from guest account desktop
I have Ubuntu 12.10 and was using guest account. I downloaded some files on desktop and shutdown my m/c after use. Now today when I logged in to guest account to copy those files but surprisingly ...
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Ubuntu: Can I delete /var/log files due to low root space
Just had the message:
Low disk space.. 2 GB left
Judging by a posted message on ubuntu.org forums, I found that I have a .log file in /var/log at 22 GB in size!! My root is an 82 GB partion and ...
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Why is a .Trash-1000 hidden folder created when I try to delete files from a mounted MicroSD card?
I have recently been mounting my Android phone via a USB cable and have been adding and deleting files to the microSD card. However I noticed that space was not being freed up when I deleted files. It ...
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How can I recover data deleted using find -delete?
HI Guys!
I am working on Ubuntu 10.04 version.
I accidentally deleted my code from find -delete command.
Is there any way to recover the data?
Many thanks in advance.
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Delete Ubuntu to free up space for computer restart properly
I copied photos onto my notebook hard drive and got a warning of limited hard drive space...I continued to copy photos onto my hard dirve. I got a message that the space limit was reached an no more ...
