Tagged Questions
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Cannot create a directory to /home
Is it normal that I can't create directories in /home partition as a normal user?
Example:
user@pc:/home$ mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Permission denied
Is that normal?
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Folders showing lock icon
Whenever I open my documents, all the folders in it are displayed with a lock icon. Therefore, I cannot delete any file or folder in it.
I tried changing the root access using sudo chmod ...
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1answer
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Fail to log in Ubuntu for deleting my home folder
I moved my home folder("huangzhiwu") to /usr/share carelessly. Then after i noticed that ,i make a new folder named huangzhiwu in /home ,and moved all files from /usr/share/huangzhiwu to the new home ...
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1answer
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Home Folder not showing in sidebar [closed]
I m using Ubuntu 12.10. It was working fine. But suddenly I found that the home folder has changed. As the left hand side the other folders were shown before like Home, Recent, Data, Windows, ...
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1answer
241 views
Cannot Install Team Fortress 2, home folder too small?
I have very little experience with Ubuntu. I'm trying to install Team Fortress 2 but it keeps telling me that I don't have enough space. I have a 500gb HDD, and at least half of it is free. How do I ...
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Encrypted home folder - can I re-do the setup?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on virtual of with xp host os. At install I checked the box for encryption of the home folder, however I skipped setting it up and generating a password which was to be ...
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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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1answer
649 views
How do I give www-data user to a folder in my home folder?
I have a folder: /home/myuser/folderA
I want to give www-data user write access to the above, while 'myuser' continues to have normal access (as it is myuser's home folder anyway).
Which commands do ...
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1answer
169 views
How do I replace a directory with a symlink and retain the folder emblem?
I want to replace the folders in my home/ directory with symlinks to folders in another location, but I want to retain the folder emblems without having to go searching for them. How do I do this?
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410 views
What is the difference betwen creating a Private encryped folder and encrypting the whole Home directory at the time of Installation?
Which method is more preferable in which situation ? Which process poses less stress over the cpu ?
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3answers
286 views
How do I use a ntfs drive as location for music, videos etc?
I have a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot system, using three drives. Drive1 contains windows, drive2 contains downloads, music, videos and so on, drive3 contains Ubuntu.
I would like to have drive2 mounted ...
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Can I change personal folder locations?
I did this in Windows 7. My Documents, Videos, Music and other personal folders are in D:\ because it is my media disk.
In case of a system failure, I will always have access to these files when I ...
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2answers
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Home folder button “buggy” after opening specific program (Maple 15)
I've recently done a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit (not wubi).
I had no problems, until I installed the program "Maple 15". Once I open Maple, the Home-button at the bar to the left, ...
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1answer
356 views
kubuntu move encrypted home dir to new SSD (keep encryption)
I already found how to move my encrypted home dir to new hd, but I have a comprehension question.
So when I installed kubuntu 11.10 I choose to have an encryption (I think there was only possible to ...
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348 views
Nautilus doesn't display contents of the home folder when launched as root
It shows the desktop symbol but it doesn't show the files on my desktop neither. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with GNOME shell.
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483 views
Separate but united Home directory
My hard disk is separated into 3 parts.
1. system
2. home (my stuff, work and such)
3. swap
The original idea is that i can reinstall and/or configure and/or experiment with the system without ...
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1answer
332 views
Home folder has limit on size, how to remove it?
How to understand that picture? home 6.4% and user folder 100%
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1answer
562 views
How to make Downloads folder behave like a temp directory
In order to reduce disk space usage, I want to automate a temporary clean in my Downloads folder. I figured two ways to do so:
1) Changing the configurations of firefox, etc. to save files to /tmp/ ...
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2answers
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Recovery of deleted folders in home folder
By accident I've removed some folders (they were empty) in my home folder. I've created a new ones but they doesn't have proper icons etc... how can I recreate them step by step?
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2answers
393 views
I deleted a built-in folder in my home folder. How do I get it back?
I delete the Downloads folder from my home folder. When I create a new folder there called "Downloads", it doesn't have the proper icon, and it doesn't show up in the places sidebar.
I tried adding ...
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2answers
574 views
How do I put /home in a different partition?
Yeah, so I have 2 hard drives, on with 2 partitions(backups and windows), and I have another that also has 2 partitions with only one used. I have Ubuntu on hard drive 2:partition one, but I have come ...
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1answer
161 views
What is the best way to stop other users accessing my data, while still allowing them in my Public folder?
I only know of two ways to do this,, encryption and chomd and have some questions about those, as well as if there are any other ways.
I want any given user have their data protected from any other ...
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2answers
420 views
Set default config files directory
Can i set default config dir in home folder?
I dislike:
/home/user/Documents
/home/user/Music
/home/user/.progconf1
/home/user/.progconf2
I want:
/home/user/Documents
/home/user/Music
...
2
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1answer
496 views
How can I move the default home folder directories to a new location?
I've got a user and I want to move all the folders that Ubuntu created in the user folder such as desktop, documents, downloads etc to different location. How can I do that? I'm using LVM:
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1answer
1k views
Functions of xdg-user-dirs
What are the functions and capabilities of xdg-user-dirs? In particular, I'm interested to have the folders it creates on a different partition instead of the whole Home.
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2answers
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How can I detect and delete all lost configuration folders?
Over the time there is an increasing number of hidden .configuration folders in my home folder.
Many of these come from applications I only installed for testing or from applications that I don't use ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu keeps creating dummy directories
Whenever I boot into Ubuntu, something (frankly, I'm not sure which program does that) creates a bunch of directories, namely ~/Music, ~/Videos, ~/Documents, and ~/Audiobooks.
I know it's possible ...
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2answers
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What are “$PATH” and “~/bin”? How can I have personal scripts?
What is $PATH?
How can I have commands/programs which are only available for me?
I have seen this path ~/bin mentioned before, but what is it used for, and how do I use it?
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3answers
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What happens if I delete the default folders in my home folder?
What are the consequences of deleting any of these?
e.g.:
How will applications that expect them to be present behave?
Where will the items on my desktop go?
