Deleting is the act of removing a file.
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Upgrade Ubuntu with CD only, no Internet
My HP Mini currently has Ubuntu 9.10 as the only OS. It is not connected to any network. I have a CD for Ubuntu 11.x that is "not getting recognized" during booting.
In this situation, how do I ...
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can't delete or use unallocated partition
I have a couple of very small unallocated partitions that I cannot delete or merge with adjacent partitions. I have tried Gparted on live Gparted cd and from the gparted app on Ubuntu live cd as well ...
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Multiple boot windows 8 and ubuntu how to remove?
I have a windows 8 and ubuntu 12 installed in my laptop but recently i formatted my laptop and re install windows and because i want a clean installation of my OS i erased and formatted the drive C ...
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Prevent the guest account from accessing a particular flash usb pen drive key?
My pen drive is very important to me. I have a 32GB one, with Ubuntu 12.04 on it. On then pen drive, I created two partitions; one ext4 for Ubuntu (5GB) and the other partition is fat32, so that ...
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No permission to delete file, no space to have permission
My computer is nearly deadlocked. I have dedicated 200gig to Ubuntu (11.10) and lately it has decided to tell me that there is 0bytes of space left. This is causing all sorts of problems. First of ...
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How can I clean up the traces left by a trial antivirus program I uninstalled?
Let's say I installed an antivirus program for a trial period. Then I did not like it and uninstalled it. But I am definitely sure that it leaves some files, traces etc. behind. So how can I clean my ...
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Why can't I delete an item(in this case a java tar.gz) file of usb live boot for Xubuntu 12.10?
I am booting Xubuntu 12.10 off a live usb and cannot delete a tar.gz file, every time i try to delete the file it says it cannot find or create the trash directory :( is there anyway to fix this so i ...
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Laptop won't boot or enter BIOS after deleting partition in Windows 7
I dual boot my computer and later decided to delete one of the Ubuntu partitions while using Windows 7. After my computer hibernated and I tried restarting my ASUS laptop it stopped at the logo and ...
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Restoring deleted partitions/files
I had Windows 7 installed on my computer and four partitions, namely, C (where Windows was installed), D, E, and F. I decided to install Ubuntu and ended up deleting all my partitions, but one with ...
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Can I delete one of my old ubuntu folder?
I installed ubuntu on both of my laptop and desktop and logged in ubuntu one using the same account.Now on my laptop I can see the sync folder of my desktop although I have already uninstalled ubuntu ...
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Stuck partition on Mac.
After I used rEFIt to put Linux on my mac, it tried installing windows, but I stopped it. The partition doesn't show up in terminal or disk utility. It's like a 'ghost' partition and it shows up when ...
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I deleted my main partition, how do I recover it?
I accidentally deleted my main partition, however i haven't restarted yet so I still have access to all my files. Is there any way to prevent it being deleted on restart?
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retrieveing files
Is it possible to retrieve files that I prevoiusly shift+delete ed ? Instead of shift+C I pressed shift + delete (I know they're not even close on the keyboard :S). I know on windows it is possibly ...
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2 Ubuntu in booting options and windows8 how to remove one?
How to clean the booting options of my laptop since i am seeing windows 8, ubuntu volume 2 and another ubuntu volume 2 (that doesn't exist) since i made a new installation of the OS again? I don't ...
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Recovering SHIFT-DELETEd files?
I just shift-deleted some important pdf-files from my dual-boot system. The files were originally on Windows drive, but I deleted them from Ubuntu.
I just used Foremost to recover, but it returns ...
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Deleted files after installing Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu on my laptop over the windows, I had 2 partitions on one hard disk. It seems like old partition is gone with all my files (photos, music, etc.). How can I recover old files. Files ...
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How to delete a folder from hard drive via xubuntu on usb?
I'm using http://xubuntu.org/ 12.10 on my memorystick, and i need to delete a folder from my C drive in my computer.
The folder is in a simple place: C/WINDOWS/program files/"folder name". How can i ...
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deleting duplicate objects from taskbar
I am using Gnome 3 (I think) and I accidently put several icons for "computer" on the taskbar. How do I get rid of them and anything else I do not want on the taskbar. \
Also, how do I tell what ...
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How to make sure, removing an app also removes the corresponding file in RC folders
Yesterday I noticed the following when I started removing several apps I was not going to use. The file in the rc folders (/etc/rc0.d , /etc/rc1.d.... /etc/rc6.d) associated with the deleted app was ...
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Is Privacy's Delete History button supposed to delete Nautilu's Recent Items?
I've opened two files and deleted the last hour history, in Recent Items' tab, in Privacy options (Ubuntu 13.04).
However, Nautilus keeps showing the two files in Recent files.
I've found the ...
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How do I delete files from root after booting from live cd
When updating to 12.10 I got a message to say I had insufficient room in root to write Grub (sorry I forgot to write the exact message down). It then just kept cycling around when I click on the close ...
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Can't delete files from my external HD
Linked question (but not duplicate): Problem deleting broken files on external drive
My External HD is working fine except for one file that I can't delete.
My guess is that there was a power failue ...
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the lib/modules contents has been deleted
What is the best way to recover from this mistake.
I tried reloading the latest 3.2.0-39 everything and it kinda works, but the mouse is a big block and I cannot load the latest video driver. I think ...
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File keeps coming to my desktop every time I delete it?
I made a folder names "Stamps" on my desktop a while ago for my site. I deleted it because I have no use for it anymore. Now every time I restart or shut off my computer, the file keeps coming up on ...
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Destop folder continually deleted 12.10 64 bit
I keep on having to create a new folder called "Desktop" in my home directory and then I keep on having to edit the file /home/<my user>/.config/user-dirs.dirs to redirect whatever program is ...
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How do i browse for and reinstate items that i have mistakenly deleted from the applications menu?
I mistakenly deleted compizconfig from the main menu by highlighting it and clicking delete in edit menus (gnome classic and 12.04) and cannot work out how to reinstall.
I have uninstalled and ...
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which are the programs that affects the delete history option in the privacy setting panel?
I mean, is not pretty clear in the description which are exactly the programs affected. It is just the activity log manager, or also include the internet browser or others system/user logs?
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Erase everything without deleting O.S files
I am shifting my host so I want to delete everything on it without actually harming/deleting o.s files so system keep's on running as if ubuntu is freshly installed .
I could have deleted my files ...
