Questions tagged [files]

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I Just Updated my Ubuntu guess to 23.10 then I Notice Some Color Mismatch Across its Apps

I just want settings and Files to have same contrast 😭 and why the title bar of gnome terminal looks like straight from Ubuntu 23.04
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Can I safely delete .~lock... files for Libreoffice documents that I know are now closed?

I have a situation where a .~lock file exists on my laptop when I know the file was closed. Here's how: On my desktop, I edit a Libreoffice Writer file. Once I've finished, I sync the folder (using ...
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Can you include .Trash-999 from other media in Trash?

Can you include the "/.Trash-999" from external media in the Trash folder on Ubuntu? Like, the trash from all media and the system Trash shows up in Trash, similar to Windows Trash?
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ls and find give "invalid argument" when passing no argument

I have an external hard drive, formatted with NTFS. On it I have one folder with about 100,000 files, totalling about 140GB (excluding overhead). I'm finding that I can no longer list the files in the ...
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Where is the save file for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012? [closed]

I'm trying to reset my profile for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 because I ran into a spoiler for one of its puzzles. No matter what I do, nothing resets it. Note that the cloud is disabled and ...
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How to write a shell pipeline to print the group owner of all sub files a directory?

I need to know the group owner of the files in a specific directory, including the files in its subdirectories.
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unzip: cannot find zip file directory

I used right click then compress to zip the folder called m1 and got m1.zip folder but when I tried to extract it again I got. Archive: m1.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either ...
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How to obtain a list of all the files recursively without listing the directories to which the files belong and sort the list of files alphabetically? [duplicate]

I only managed to list the directories themselves with ls -a or the files sorted by directory with ls -aR
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Completely lost a folder converted to unkown file

this is blowing my mind. I got a new fresh installed ubuntu and windows on seperated partitions. From ubuntu, I can access windows partition so I created a folder named REPO_APP inside that contains ...
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Nautilus (Files) crashes when trying to open specific folder on Ubuntu 22.04

Picture When I try to open folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos) using right click on Files icon on the left bar the Files crashes. I noticed that this only happens when I ...
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var/log/syslog growing indefinitely in size

The disk that contains Ubuntu on my computer is 115GB in size. When the disk was 114.7GBfull. I started deleting some files here and there to free up around 5GB. But I noticed the disk was 114GB ...
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What is the "-z" file on my system?

I have a file simply called -z. It is an octet-stream file located in my home/user directory. Only root has access. I can't seem to open it with vim because it can't take the argument "z" (...
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fcraczip no't working in ubuntu

i tried to crack my zip file it's not give me any result this what i got ┌─[dsl@Linux]─[~/11] └──╼ $fcrackzip -u -D -p 1 1.zip ┌─[dsl@Linux]─[~/11] └──╼ $ fcrackzip issue
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Why are files missing from directories when viewed from web?

I am really puzzled by the behaviour of Apache 2 in displaying files contained in folders stored on my unix server. Until recently I had assumed that I could navigate through listings displayed on ...
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cannot find - No such file or directory - libusb - Ubuntu 32 & 64 bit

I'm trying to write a program that transfers data to my device. I'm using libusb. I had many problems to install its package in both 32 & 64 bit edition of Ubuntu 16 LTS. Commands for ...
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Drag and drop files from file explorer in sftp folder onto vscode

I browse files through sftp on the file explorer, aka Files. I would like to drag and drop them, or double click them to open them on my local programs, such as vscode or paraview for instance. Here ...
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Delete files within my download folder

I may have too many dang random files in my download folder because every time I try to get into it my explorer crashes after loading for a bit and I have to reboot my whole pc. I just wondered if ...
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Create checksum sha256 of all files and directories?

I need to create a list of checksums of the files that are inside a directory, including any subdirectories. The command that I try to execute is the following: sha256sum -b * Usage: -b = Read ...
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Not able to delete a file even if using sudo command on ubuntu 22.04 LTS

I have a text file Summary_DataTypes.txt which was created by me earlier. It appears in lsand vs code. But does not show in the folder even if I do show hidden folder. I want to delete this file but ...
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How can I find all video files on my system?

I tried using the Unity Lens File search for *.* and filtering by Last Modified=All, Type=Videos, and Size=All, but found nothing, although I know there are some .3gp files in my Pictures folder. I ...
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How do i eliminate files saved in Run/user/1000/doc

I run Ubuntu 22.04. My web browsers saves downloaded files to the run/user/1000/doc folder in hex-named folders created for every single file. As I learned seaching the web, this can be avoided by ...
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Open in Terminal item is missing for network shares

I noticed something odd today. When I have a network share open, the context menu of the Files file browser in Ubuntu-22.04 is missing the "Open in Terminal" item. With local folders, like ...
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How do I increase the size of swapfile without removing it in the terminal?

Is there a way to increase my existing "swapfile" without having to destroy and re-create it? I would like to up my swap space from 1GB to 2GB. Currently it is set up as such: $ sudo swapon -s ...
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Searching through ODT documents without opening them?

Let's say I have 2000 .ODT files. Their names are random numbers. How do I go about searching for, let's say, "pricing list"? How do I find the document I need without opening all of them one by one ...
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Firefox can't open files

I just updated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and it looks since then Firefox can't open a file. When I download a file from a website, I get the dialog box "Open with... System Handler (default)&...
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QT apps do not respect file-chooser bookmarks

background In ubuntu files app (Nautilus), a user can create bookmarks to folders in the left pane: most apps respect these bookmarks; I assume this is just by virtue of them using a ~ system file-...
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Ubuntu 19.10 Can't find .local folder

I'm new to Ubuntu and I can't find .local. I looked everywhere and tried using the search function. Apparently that's where the applications install so I really need access to it.
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is there a command to convert svg to stl?

Im doing some 3d modeling, and Ive been using inkscape to create 2D models, then importing them into openSCAD via a kinda superfluous method of uploading the svg files to tinkercad, downloading the ...
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How to disable the Nautilus dynamic menu when right clicking on the dock icon? (22.04 and above)

When right-clicking on the Nautilus Files dock icon, it gives a different menu based on if you have a Files window open or not (shown by the image below): I would like to have customized right-click ...
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How to automate the compression of the contents of each subfolder in a directory?

I'm looking to automate the compression of the contents of each subfolder (excluding the subfolder itself) in a directory, with each .zip of said contents corresponding to each subfolder. Is there a ...
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What are directories, if everything on Linux is a file?

Very often beginners hear a phrase "Everything is a file on Linux/Unix". However, what are the directories then? How are they different from files?
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Green emblem with a number on the Files icon that doesn't want to go away [duplicate]

There is a green emblem with a number on the Files icon in the Dock that doesn't want to go away. How can I get rid of it?
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How to add XAMPP MySQL Path in Ubuntu environment variable?

I'm a new Ubuntu (Kubuntu) user. I migrated from Windows. I want to add MySQL bin path to environment variable on Ubuntu (Kubuntu). How to do it? Please help me!
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How to pin the Desktop folder to the left?

I can see the Desktop folder on the left. But on my other computer, I can't see it. How to pin it to the left?
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Wanting to swap from Linux mint 21.2 to the latest LTS Ubuntu. I have my system backed up to an external hdd will I be able to restore from that

Laptop is a Dell inspiron 16. 1 TB SSD 64 GB ram. [edit] I should also add that the ssd is encrypted so I have to enter a password to boot the system and another to enter the home screen and start ...
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How can I recursively delete all files of a specific extension in the current directory?

How do I safely delete all files with a specific extension (e.g. .bak) from current directory and all subfolders using one command-line? Simply, I'm afraid to use rm since I used it wrong once and now ...
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Help finding files with the same filename (except what's inside parenthesis) and deleting the smaller size ones

I need to know how to find one or more files with the same filename (except what's inside parenthesis) and delete the one(s) with the smaller size, in a folder. I don't care if it's a GUI app or ...
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Cann't connect to 'Other Locations' on Ubuntu 20.04

I'm trying to connect to a sftp server in Files-application via Other Locations -> Connect to Server. Every URL gets red immediately after entering ':' after the protocol (happens with every ...
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Files inside of External storage won’t show in nextcloud (Snap Package)

The following two are snapshots of my file explorer: As you can see from the attached images files within my hard drive aren't showing in nextcloud but do show in other places. It is added through ...
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Fresh Install Ubuntu 22.04 - unable to see files or folders?

Ubuntu 22.04 Crashed on me and I was unable to recover, so reinstalled (not on this device) Now installed and I can see the drive... But all my folders and files are missing? on running Gdisk I get ...
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transfer files from icloud and one drive to desktop running ubuntu

I cannot download file folders from iCloud drive and OneDrive to my computer. I can on Google Drive. Photos are fine and individual files but not file folders. Is there a way without individually ...
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How to calculate the size of heap, file, variable or any element from memory adress?

I'm currently trying to get the size of the heap of a process and I got some confusions. In proc/PID/maps I got: 009df000-00a01000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] I know ...
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how to get files from Oracle VirtualBox without running it

hope this message finds you well. I am currently experiencing difficulty accessing machine from Oracle VirtualBox that is running on my windows 10 because I have forgot the password. I'm wondering if ...
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Files gone after update Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

I use Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. Today there was an update. after the update all my accounts were deconnected, Thunderbirds connection to my email adresses was gone, all files deleted. A lot of files (...
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recover files after accidentally changing the partition table

I have an internal drive of 500GB called /dev/sda that have nine partitions (sda1 to sda9).I also have an external hard drive of 1TB called /dev/sdb that have one partition called sdb1 in NTFS format, ...
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How to Fix "Read-only file system" error when I run something as sudo and try to make a folder/file?

When I try to save something or rename a file/folder it say this error " Read-only file system" or run something as root in the terminal it say this error sudo: unable to open /var/lib/sudo/"My User ...
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doesn't support architecture 'arm64' doesn't support architecture -armhf

i need a vendor to compile an ARM64 and an Armhf repository for my 32 bit chromebook. it won't install wine or itunes 32 bit on my chromebook
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Automatically logged out as soon as I log in

Ubuntu 16.04 logs me out automatically after I log in. This thing started after I tried to extract Matlab to a folder in my home directory which in turn got extracted to the home directory. Please can ...
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Create file and its parent directory

I know that touch command creates a file: touch test1.txt but how I can create a file and its full path? for example my desktop contains nothing: ~/Desktop/$ ls ~/Desktop/$ and I want to create 1....
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How can I search based on file contents? (GUI, not terminal)

Every question and answer I've seen so far is ancient or just about grep in the terminal. I want an easy way to search my ~/code folder for certain strings. And I want the interface to allow filtering ...

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