I'm having a problem where the hidden directories in my home directory show up as disks on the desktop.
These also show up as disks in the Nautilus browser. The attached screenshot shows this.
Does anyone know how to disable this behavior?
There are some hidden files in my desktop..How do i make them visible?
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Ubuntu 10.04
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I have tried several things, such as:
cp -r *
cp -aR *
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(a new server,2 CPU 8 core and 8 gb ram)
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 12.9662 s, 79.0 MB/s (I have not used this server yet) (hw raid1)
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