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File type in Nautilus when working with webdav
I'm on Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits and I've mounted two webdav "markers" to access GDrive and 4Shared accounts.
That worked fine, but all files are of type "binary" and don't open correctly when double ...
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Is default Octave linked to libhdf5-serial-dev
I'm trying to read a .h5 file with octave using
load("-hdf5","finalProg.h5")
But I'm getting the error below.
Looking at the octave documentation for load with -hdf5, it says "This format is only ...
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Direct file downloads based off file extension?
Is it possible to make it that whenever I download a file, it is redirected to a certain folder based on its file extension?
Eg, *.jpg, *.gif, *.png, etc, that it downloads to my pictures folder, ...
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Import vector graphics to inkscape
I'm producing vector graphics in my research with Maethematica and/or MATLAB, and I want to combine a few of them. I thought the best would be to use inkscape to do that, but unfortunately inkscape ...
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Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG… I can't open it! Hex editor file extrange
I can't open my .jpg files. It shows: Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with... I had found some similar problem but without resolving.
I tried various softwares but ...
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How can I stop Files from oversimplifying file types?
When I sort files by type in Files, both JPEG and TIFF file types are described unhelpfully as "Image". This oversimplification makes sorting effectively useless for me:
When writing this question ...
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What (input) types of files can avconv convert and to what (output) files?
I like to use simple commands (in Thunar custom actions), like avconv -i %f %f.mp3.
I can replace mp3 with flac for example - but what other output extensions can be used?
Also, in Thunar custom ...
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What (input) types of files can ffmpeg convert and to what (output) files?
I like to use simple commands (added to Thunar custom actions), like ffmpeg -i %f %f.mp3.
I can replace mp3 with flac for example - but what other output extensions can be used?
Also, in Thunar ...
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Delete files with 2 separators
I would like to be able to search and delete files which have 2 separator "." in their names but all end with .gnucash or .log
e.g. PL.293892.gnucash
How do I do this please?
Normally I would ...
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How to read file with iso-8859-1 latin1 encoding?
What package should I install to be able to read files with iso-8859-1 latin1 encoding?
Currently, I only see strange characters instead of text.
% locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
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Files no longer open with the preferred app, Nautilus opens instead
Basically that: it used to be that if I downloaded a certain file in firefox, chromium or transmission it would open with the preferred app (image > shotwell, zip > file roller) but now its always ...
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How do I save a LibreOffice Calc file for opening in Excel?
I am trying to save a file in LibreOffice Calc that is still usable in Microsoft Office Excel. Save as .xlms doesn't work.
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car radio sd doesn't work when formated from ubuntu
My radio car reads SD card only when formated from windows. When I format it from ubuntu it says "no file", althought in the computer (both from windows and ubuntu) I can see their contents. Is there ...
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Which softwares i should install for opening .stl files?
I use Ubuntu 12.10. What are the Softwares which i can install that can open Physible .stl files? And what are the differences between these Softwares?
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How to list text files without a .txt file extension?
For example, how can I replicate
ls *.txt
when my text files are missing the .txt ending, and as far as extensions go appear the same as many other types of file?
Alternatively, is it possible to ...
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Force file extension to open with specific app (Extensions like .exe, .jpg, .mp4…)
I have already read the question about Creating .desktop files to use on the "Open with other application" tab but this is not what I want, I want to be able to click on the file in Dash or ...
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How can I cut the margin of a PDF or djvu file for optimal booklet printing?
I have a file which has exaggerated margins. This forces me to print it as a booklet, otherwise I feel I'm waisting paper (a good size of the font allows me to do so). But if I print directly in ...
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exfat external hard drive + format
i have a 1TB usb3 adata ch11 external hard drive that was formatted with ex-fat file system
ihave pluged it into a DVR device and the device tries to format it but fails(ididnt want to do that it was ...
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What is the file extension for things in the /bin folder?
I was looking at stuff like /bin/bash, and I wanted to make my own file like that that's full of aliases, but I need to know the file extension. Please tell me.
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KFP file in ubuntu?
My print shop provides a KFP file for checking a PDF for print readiness. It seems that this file can be imported into Acrobat Professional (keyword: Preflight Profile), but is a Kinko's File Prep ...
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associating files with same MIME but different file extensions to differentt applications
How can I associate files with same MIME but different extensions to different applications.
For example both .maff & .zip files have application/zip MIME ; But I need to open .maff by Firefox and ...
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Accidentally formated external hard drive
Today I was trying to copy some files from my external hard drive (1TB) to a flash drive (4GB) on Ubuntu 12.10. My flash drive contained an operating system, so I decided to format it using the disk ...
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Making a file with terminal commands?
In Windows I can write a file containing commands for cmd (usually .cmd or .bat files). When I click on those files it will open cmd.exe and run them commands the file contains.
How would I do this ...
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Manipulating WIM files
extending on this question: How do I handle .WIM image files?
Any way to change/create a WIM file?
The problem at hand is that i need to remove a few directories from a WIM archive.
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List files of particular extension
Ok this is strange. I am using this code,
ls *.prj
To list all the files with the .prj extension in the dir but I am getting this error,
bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
I eventually ...
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Opening any file with any other Program
Okay, I have the following problem:
I have a file (.jnlp, but that isn't important) that I want to open with a certain program (javaws). The problem is that the program I want to open it with is not ...
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f-spot in ubuntu 12.04 doesn't support “open with gimp” UNLESS I rename .JPG to .jpg - Q re file extension registration
I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04.
I then used apt-get install to install Gimp and F-spot.
When I import an image in f-spot then right click to get the "open with application" menu, no ...
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Is there a quick way to convert camera raw files to DNG?
Before I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my daily computing, I used Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom for processing photos from my DSLR. Adobe made it really straightforward to batch convert from ...
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colored text format for readme or simple documentation files
I am looking for a colored format that is supported by ubuntu to write documentation files that can be displayed colored and bolded to be displayed on a text editor like gedit. I wanted to ask it ...
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Nautilus and file command in 11.04 don't show metadata for WebM files [closed]
The file-name extension .webm is used for media files using the WebM multimedia format, which consists of the WebM container (a subset of the Matroska container) and audio and video streams with ...
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Default program for opening .pro Qt project files
I would like to set Qt Creator (the one which is in the Nokia Qt SDK, not the one in Canonical PPAs) as the default program to open .pro Qt project files. But it appears that my Ubuntu install (12.04 ...
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Setting different default applications for different Desktop Environments
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with default Unity interface. I installed later the KDE desktop, XFCE, LXDE, gnome-shell and Cinnamon.
The KDE comes with different default applications than Unity, such as
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How do I change a document's extension / file extension / file format?
In Windows there's an option to view extensions for known file types. When I enable that option I see all the files with their respective extension; for example an mp3 music file is: name.mp3
If I ...
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Why is it possible to convert a file just by renaming its extension?
When you rename files into a different, most of the times it does not work. But, suppose you have a .png file, you can just rename "image.png" to "image.jpeg" or "image.gif", it automatically gets ...
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Is it possible to preview arbitrary formats in Nautilus?
I recently found out that Nautilus (Ubuntu 12.04 at least) can show thumbnails of files of non-image formats, for example (data grapher) grace files (.agr) shows a small version of the graph contained ...
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What are the '~' files created when I edit something and can I delete them? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Prevent gedit from creating files with the '~' suffix
I've noticed that every time i edit or in anyway modify a .txt, .php, .html, .doc etc file, after I save ...
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Why are text files created on ubuntu not recognised as windows notepad files?
Whenever I want to access a text file created on ubuntu using Windows, it looks as if the file extension is not recognised. I always have to choose open with and then select notepad.
Is there any ...
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How do i enable hinting for streaming in mp4 files?
I have used MP4Box in the past to enable hinting on mp4 files in the past but it looks like its no longer in the repositories. Is there anything else that can be used or do i need to compile from ...
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How do I set kile as the default application for .tex files?
Using Ubuntu 12.04. I would like to choose kile as the default application for tex files, but I run into problems. I go through
"right click" -> properties -> open with -> show other applications
...
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Ubuntu apps open folders instead of documents?
I must have done something to Ubuntu 12.04 on my latop because a few weeks ago, various applications (Chrome, Calibre, etc.) have stopped opening documents (like PDFs, zip files, etc.). What happens ...
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Is there a way to quickly change all the file extensions of all files in a folder?
I have a large folder of .m4b audio books which in their current format won't play on my Android phone. However they do work fine if they are renamed to .m4a
Is there a quick method or terminal ...
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How to edit mime types on precise [closed]
In precise, when I try to change default icon for a specific file type with Assogiate, there is no effects; not even if I try this operation under root rights. Are there some workarounds known for ...
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How to open .xmi files
Is there any app that can open .xmi files in Ubuntu?
File created in the XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) format, an XML file format most commonly used for exchanging UML diagrams; stores model design ...
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I am not able to delete a corrupt NTFS partition on my pen drive. How can I force its deletion?
I formatted my 16GB pen drive with the NTFS file system in windows vista. After that I started copying some files. However, only a few files were copied to the pen drive before the copy operation ...
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How to register a shell script as the main application for a given file extension
I have a shell script "the_script" that I would like to register as the default application for the files with the extension ".ext". For this purpose, I have written an xml file to register the mime ...
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How to extract files from a split 7zip archive?
I downloaded a series of packages that all compress one thing. The files end in .0, .1, .2, etc.
The User Lists of these packages I downloaded say to use the file.bat to successfully extract, or to ...
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how to read files recovored by scalpel?
I used scalpel to recover some deleted jpg files. Now I have files which look like this: jpg-1-21, jpg-1-22 etc... but don't know how to open them. I tried with image viewer, but it says there's no ...
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Save .csv with formulas?
It seems to be an undocumented/unsupported feature, but if you open a csv (comma separated spreadsheet) with Libreoffice, it will calculate formulas that start with = in the text file. Unfortunately I ...
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What program can I use to open an .itf file? (interlace file)
After looking around for a couple hours, I can only find that files with this extension are associated with JPI TopSpeed Pascal.
The files were generated by a cable tester and I have no idea what the ...
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Did I lose my personal files?? Help!
My U11.10 was not booting up. I tried to "repair" by reinstalling using live CD, option "Upgrade from 11.10 to 11.10" (none of your personal files will be touched). When the installation was almost ...
