A component of a Unix filesystem which contains other items, to organise the filesystem
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Assign Group rights to folder
Hello I am new with ubuntu and I have a question.
I created a user ABC. I created a group XYZ. I added user ABC to group XYZ .
I have a folder mounted mydrive. I mounted it under as I have attached ...
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Can not see Wine's C drive
I have a problem. My Wine has a C drive, but it's invisible. When I try to locate it in terminal, I can see the path: /home/michal/.wine/drive_c/windows
Problem is, when I open my user directory ...
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Terminal doesn't see Windows filesystem until I open in Home Folder GUI
I'm currently dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu. When I try to access my Windows HD through the terminal I can't find it. However, I used the Home Folder application to see where those ...
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How to copy files while keeping directory structure?
This is for a java project, but the same concept can be applied more generally:
Basically, I have a projects with all *.java files located in some sub directory of src. Now I want to grab all ...
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Sublime Text 2 file search not working?
Sublime Text 2 has an extremely handy feature to press Ctrl+P and be able to fuzzy search for files in a given specified directory.
This worked well on Windows, but on Ubuntu it doesn't recognise the ...
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Delete all files with certain name in entire directory
I have a directory that I want to delete all the .svn folders in all of its subdirectories. Is there a command that can do this without me having to go through each individual subdirectory and delete ...
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Apache2 and Its Directories
Assume my webserver hosts multiple domains. Where is my directory that contains the active web domains?
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How do I find lost folders
Somehow (I don't know how) I seem to have lost my Documents file. I thought I'd look in the Trash but that now just seems to open my Home folder. What might have happened? I've searched for files ...
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How to search for all the files starting with the name “ABC” in a directory?
I need to search for files starting with some particular name. There can be multiple files starting with a particular pattern and I want to list all such files present in the directory.
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Why is my partition claiming to be out of space?
My file system claims to only have 4.5 GB left. While my OS (a folder with in file system) still has 75.2 GB left. I put something near 130 GB on my Ubuntu partition, it should have enough space.
I ...
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Purpose of /run/lock/ (empty except for ./whoopsie/)
My /run/lock/ directory is empty except for ./whoopsie/. I have understood /run/lock/ as a replacement for /var/lock/ but was surprised to find it entirely empty.
Is whoopsie meant as a deterrent ...
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Which Folders To Include In backup?
I'm quite new to Ubuntu and want to create a backup. I'm really not sure what files and folders to include so that if I restore my system it will be as it is now. I can't seem to find good details of ...
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How can I remove only network folders from unity bar?
Since 12.10 I have no options to remove the network folders that shows up in the unity bar.
I was able to do that before...
Ideally I would like to remove only network folders, not mounted USB ...
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Create .desktop file as shorcut to a folder in Lubuntu LXDE
What is the "Exec=" part of a desktop configuration file for this? I guess I should mention file manager but how exactly?
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Remove files of certain type, retain directory tree
I'm trying to move a bunch of .doc and .xls files, which are stored in a bunch of folders and subfolders, to a new location. I previously tried cp -r **/{*.doc,*.xls} /wherever/you/want/, which worked ...
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Nautilus - show folder size in List view?
In the List view in Nautilus, I can see datestamp, name, etc - but it would be great to add one more extra tab and make the size of everything contained in a folder visible at a glance as well.
Is ...
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How to see photos shared in a folder in a sequence
Someone shared a folder with dozens of photos with me. I am in Ubuntu 12.04 and Firefox 16.02.
The only way I found out to see the photos in a sequence is to
- download one by one (did not manage to ...
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Add folders to 'libraries'
I am dual-booting windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10. Now I have all my documents and media files in the windows partition/windows library. In windows, for example, in the documents library we can add a ...
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Nautilus tags/labels/marks/columns for folders/files
Is there any way how to mark folders or files with tags(or labels, new columns or whatever) in Nautilus? It would be nice to sort marked folders or files through this tags.
Especially my first idea ...
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How can I get to a folder using dash
I love the dash, but I am really annoyed that when I type a folder name, 90% of the cases the dash does not know what I am looking for.
I have a folder 'Projects', but when entered 'Projects', it is ...
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files and folders do not appear on the unity desktop
The files and folders appear in a file manger but do not appear on the unity-2D desktop.
They do appear in the xubuntu Xfce desktop environment. I really want to use Unity for many reasons.
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Using the terminal to open a folder which contains japanese characters
I need to use the terminal to open a folder with a Japanese title. If I use - ls to see the name of the folder, all it shows is: " ■ ■ ■ ■ " . The actual title is: " 源氏物語 ".
What should I do?
Thanks ...
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I'm unable to find /usr/share/plymouth/themes/
I'm thinking about customizing a theme for Ubuntu 12.10. The problem is that I've looked through the /usr/share directory and I haven't been able to find the Plymouth folder. What can I do to get the ...
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How to resize a folder name area in Ubuntu 12.04?
I am having folders on my desktop. The folders names exceed the folders icons. So that makes me difficult to read the folder names whenever I align all folders in a same line. What I want is to ...
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Go to the parent directory in Files/Nautilus Ubuntu 12.10
In Ubuntu 12.10 (Gnome3) they've removed the "go to parent directory" using Backspace. I was very used to it...
I've seen in source code comments that they've removed this support and there are at ...
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Problems installing VTK on ubuntu
When i try to install VTK with command
ccmake .
I get these errors:
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they ...
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Change root user's home directory in Ubuntu?
Title says it all, how do I change the home directory of the 'root' user in Ubuntu 12.04?
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iPhone like folders? for Gnome Classic [closed]
I want the iPhone like folder for Gnome Classic how do I get them?
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Changing File Structure
A lot of times when I'm unzipping files, I'll get a messed up directory structure that looks like /home/bob/myfolder/myfolder/otherstuff. Where the only thing that the first myfolder contains is ...
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Kill a process by giving dir
I'm working on a Control Panel for SA-MP.
Firstly I want to make a start and a close button.
The start button is done, I'm having some problems with the close button.
I will host multiple server on ...
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Evolution 3.6 change trash and spam folder of an IMAP account on 12.10
Since I upgraded my to 12.10, there is no possibility to change the standard IMAP folder Spam and Trash. In older versions you could change spam, send, draft and trash under settings of your mail ...
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Change directory colour displayed in the terminal
I would like to change the colour displayed of some folders when I do ls.
Right now I have a directory with movies and I would like to be able to see the ones that I haven't seen in a different ...
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Shutter saving path still saves to Pictures.. And not in the preferred location. How to solve? [closed]
Shutter saves it's screenshot in Picture's folder. But I selected my own directory. And still chooses the Picture folder. BTW I'm in Gnome-classic, I don't know if this is also like in Unity as well.
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Compilation fails due to “linux/smp_lock.h No such file or directory” error
After the update or install a program
This message appears
Package operation failed
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
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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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Tool or command to move multiple files from multiple folders into one place (without overwriting)
I am currently working on recovering some logfiles from random backups that I made.
I have 48 files in 70+ folders.
I'd like to move these 48 files into one folder, without overwriting files with the ...
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How do I stop syncing a folder outside ~/Ubuntu One?
Yes I know this question is in the FAQ but is no answear for them - I read it and don't find anything.
My problem is that I have a folder ~/linux and I had synced that.
Then My Folders in "Ubuntu ...
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Folder shown as executable
I copied the content of a USB stick in a folder into an NTFS drive, and everything seemed right (the folder was accessible, etc.).
But today, when I wanted to access this folder, the folder's icon ...
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Change file permissions for the entire folder
I am trying to change the file permissions for the entire directory. Presently all the files in the dir have the following permission,
-rw-------
And I wish to change it to,
-rw-r--r--
I know I ...
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Archive Manager won't compress files
I've been zipping files to send to people, and they're not being compressed, even though it says they are. or maybe they're being super-minimally compressed. But I even managed to zip a folder and ...
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Ubuntu One Mac Beta: How do I move the Ubuntu One folder?
I've just installed the Ubuntu One Mac Beta client and it syncs a folder called ~/Ubuntu One.
However, I don't want this folder in my home directory. How can I move it or rename it so that another ...
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How to copy a folder from /home/kevin to /opt
I have a new computer installed with Ubuntu 12.04. Then I want to install wireless driver named compat-wireless-3.5-3. Before that, the driver folder to /home/kevin.
I want to install it on /opt ...
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How do I get my folders back on my desktop?
Using the 12.04 version. This morning the Update Manager popped up, I clicked it and it said some items will be un-installed and some will be upgraded and new ones will be installed. I did it and ...
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Language support problem
I have a problem with the language support in Ubuntu 12.04LTS. I want to install Spanish in my computer and the system isn't able to find or create the directory that will allow the system to actually ...
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How to create folders structure in shotwell [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can Shotwell create a folder structure based on the event a photo is assigned to?
Trying to sort my photo folder using shotwell, aside shotwell is good almost for ...
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Language support: Unable to install Spanish or French, can't create directories [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
locale: Reset lost settings
I wanted to install another language onto my computer. The thing is that they are installed and the software isn't able to find them or bring ...
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creating a keyboard shortcut to open a specific folder/directory
I have dropbox installed. So I would like to create a keyboard shortcut to open my dropbox directory in nautilus ? what is the command that I have to put in the 'command' field ? Thanks
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Is there a standard place for placing custom Linux scripts?
I am developing a set of scripts, which I want to be present for all users, when I set up a server. But I don't want them in the standard locations like /usr[/local]/[bin],[sbin] etc.
Is there some ...
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Setting folder permission so it isn't deletable, but everything else is allowed
I want to set permissions to a folder such that, when I'm normally logged in (meaning not as root), this folder isn't deletable, but I can still change the name of this folder and move in around in my ...
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How to change file permission from Ubuntu wubi install
I am new to Ubuntu and Linux. I have a WUBI installation within Windows 7.
The issue I am having is that I can't seem to modify Windows files from Ubuntu. I can access and see all the files and ...
