Ubuntu :: Copying Folder To Home Folder?
Jan 8, 2011
I'm not positive if this is in the correct section but I am hoping so. I am running dual-boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. I hunted down my files from Windows that I need for school (old papers, research, etc.) and found it under "file system" --> "host" --> "users" --> "zbollman". I can access all of my files and I'm happy now that I don't have to boot between the two constantly to get what I need. However, I tried to copy the file to my home folder, but it said I do not have enough room. I'm about 5GB short. How do I go about allocating more space so that I can copy this folder so that all of my information is easily accessible?
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Jun 23, 2010
I did it on a friend's desktop and it worked a treat. All her settings, passwords etc... remained.
Is there any catch to doing this or is it that easy?
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Jul 2, 2010
Is there a way to recreate all the folders from one directory to another without copying over the contents of the folder? I've been trying to do something like this,
Code:for i in `ls $X`; do mkdir $PATH/$i; doneUnfortunately $i is deliminated by whitespaces in the filenames and not the actual folders.
$X contains only other folders so I dont have to worry about regular files but any kind of more "advanced" solution would work.
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Sep 10, 2009
How would i go about copying all .jpg or .JPG files from a folder and all its subfolders to my /usr/name/pictures folder? I'm guessing I'd have to use some sort of .[jJ][pP][gG] to get all the pictures from other examples i've seen, but really not sure how to use that in a recursive cp.
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Jun 8, 2011
upon browsing the home folder in my ubuntu system, i came across a hidden cache folder..
it occupied around 700 mb of space..and im falling short of space..
can i delete the contents in the folder? are they safe to delete?
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Jun 13, 2011
I have Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 updated to 9.10 and have downloaded Remaster from Remastersys. I followed all of the instructions, which were simple enough. However, there must be some instructions missing as the process failed. Working with Remaster through Synaptic Manager, the iso was downloaded into my "home" folder into its own Remaster folder. It was not the iso, like you get when downloading a distro from the Internet, which downloads just an iso onto the Desktop. Inside the folder were a bunch of empty files (I know, because I opened them) and an iso . At this point the Remaster instruction stop. They do not say what to do with the other files, or what they have to do with the iso of my Ubuntu layout. So, like any other iso (once I knew which one was the iso of my setup), I double clicked on it and it ran me through the process of accessing the DVD to burn it. Which I did. I tested it and it failed with some kind of message to the effect that certain files were missing or it could not read it. So, I thought, I would have to do the 'hunt and peck' method and experiment a few times like I did with the ordinary distro downloads until I get it right. But first, I would have to dump the Remaster folder in the "home" folder since it took up so much space on my hard drive. Wrong! I come to find out it is in something called "root" and that I do not have permission to do anything with it but "copy" it. Great. Just great! Now what do I do. I tried to change permissions, but was not allowed to do that either. The only thing I could think of - and dread - was the idea of having to wipe my hard drive and go through the whole reinstall procedures, which takes me days, just because Remaster has locked itself into my system - and there is no 'back door' to get out of it.
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Jan 9, 2009
id like to lock a user into his websites folder not his home folder. and i dont want him to be able to veiw anything outside that folder, only be able to play with whats inside that folder. is this possible?
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Nov 12, 2010
I am trying to copy a (custom XML) file to a protected folder (namely /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Protocol) for data Input/Output.I tried copying and pasting the folders and it doesn't work. I realized that it is because only root user has the permission to do modification.So, I tried using "sudo cp" to copy the file. The file was copied, but the content now becomes unreadable when I tried to open the file
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May 3, 2011
i will protect my folder so if someone want to copy that folder include container, he must enter right password first oh yeah i will store it in ntfs partition and backup in exsternal hardisk anywants how to do it in both of them, please share here because i already try to use permission but it's failed
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Nov 20, 2010
i want to do it via graphical interface (for ease of access) but i can't write in the backgrounds folder because i don't have permissions to do so. although i made my account part of the administrators group and loged on again. so basically, i need to have full control of my machine logged on with my user, i don't care about security at all. How?
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Feb 21, 2011
suppose I have a tree structure like this:
/home/mahmood/sim/a/b/file1.cpp
/home/mahmood/sim/a/b/file2.h
/home/mahmood/sim/a/c/file3.txt
/home/mahmood/sim/d/file4.txt
How can I copy all of them to /home/mahmood/sim. So that when I run "ls" in /home/mahmood/sim, I see all files:
file1.cpp
file2.h
file3.txt
file4.txt
Can 'cp' search for all file and copy them in another folder?
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Jun 6, 2011
I've ran into a pickle regarding permissions and ACL. My users has a folder called "UVdokumenter", in wich they want to put documents up for sharing and editing. Everyone needs to be able to edit the files in that folder, so i set the ACL to this:
Code:
# file: UVdokumenter/
# owner: fleten
[code]....
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Nov 21, 2010
I'm looking for some way to search a given directory, copy its folder structure to another given directory, and copy from the original only certain files into the newly created directory.Vague, I'm sure. But here's what I'm actually looking for:My music player won't display album art without a "cover.jpg" image in each folder where the files are, but I have Rhythmbox set to only copy the top rated songs. Each file does have its cover embedded in it, but there's also a cover.jpg in each folder.
So I'd like to let Rhythmbox handle the actual song copying, and then have a script or something that I can run that will scan my onboard music directory for cover.jpg files and then place them in the appropriate folders within my music player's folders. Obviously I can't just copy my onboard music directory, or I'm getting *every* song, not just the top-rated, which defeats the purpose of syncing at all.
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Jul 8, 2011
I have to work in terminal but I don't know the command of copying files from one folder to another. e.g from /share/ParaDiS.v2.3.5.1 to /home/newfolder what should I type?
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Sep 22, 2010
I have a dual-boot macbook with an OS X partition and an ubuntu partition. When I first installed ubuntu, I changed my home folder to my OS X home directory to synchronize all my files from both. My home directory is now /media/sda2/Users/username/. In a regular home folder, the icons for Documents, Music, Pictures, Movies, etc. are different (not just with emblems, but actually different icons). But when I changed my home folder, these subfolders' icons stayed the same as regular folder icons and I can't figure out a way to change that default setting. I know how to change the icons for each folder manually, but these changes don't appear everywhere (i.e. nautilus, places, etc). Furthermore, every time I change my icon theme, I would have to manually reassign icons for these folders. Is there a way to globally change the folder icons for these folders?
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Dec 22, 2010
I've some virtual desktop. Iǘe some folder views in one on the desktops wich i would like to appear on the others, is there a way to copy them
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Jul 4, 2011
The problem is i have to copy folders from network into the RHEL server. When i am copying i can copy the folders and documents which do not have a sub folder. But the folders with subfolders is not getting copied. How should i do it?
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Nov 19, 2010
i want to copy the latest 10 files from one holder to another. All the files start with the number 2 and this is what i have so far:
lt -lt 2* | head -10
So i want to copy that output of 10 files to another folder
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Dec 22, 2010
I want to copy everything in templates/blue to the folder code/
However: cp -r 'templates/blue' 'code'
Creates a folder called blue inside code. I tried cp -r 'templates/blue/*' 'code', but that didn't do anything.
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Mar 28, 2011
I do have an Ubuntu Headless server which is running Samba on it. My mp3 file collection resides on that server on is being share.
So far, no problems connecting to that drive and writing from my Windows box on that share. But if I use my main laptop, which runs Ubuntu Lucid and download an mp3 song from Amazon, the moment I move that to the share, I got permissions problems from the Windows machine. This is clearly a permission issue with group and others; the song is being created on the share without read and write permissions to others or the samba group I created.
My question is. How can I make this process simple or automatic, when moving songs to the share? I don't want to go there everytime and run ...
Code:
Which was basically how I reset or fixed the problem.
I've read about umask, but not sure if that applies here or not, because I'm not creating the file but moving it.
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Jun 10, 2010
I'm using fedora 13 to connect to my server's share folder(windows server 2003) and i found that i can create folder,create file, access and open or delete the file in the window share folder, but i can't save or replace the file in the share folder. the error message is like below...there are error copying file into smb://path/folderShow more detail:
Invalid argumenti also have attach the pictureby the way....i had disable the firewall and selinux already....but still can't save the file into the window share folder.previously i use fedora 11 and all is ok with no problem, but the fedora13 got this problem, please tell me what cause this happen?
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Mar 24, 2016
This my scenery:
1 pc windows 7.
1 pc linux debian jessie.
From jessie, mount a share folder in windows 7, in this way: mount -t cifs //windows7/sharefolder /mnt/windows7 -o user=pychi,password=mypass,uid=pychi,gid=pychi
And work fine, the user pychi and root, copy to windows share folder perfect and fast, but the big problem is:
when i copy a big folder, example 40 gb, after 30% or similar, stop the copy, and this is a list of different errors:
- It's not possible change file proprietary on destiny.
- not enough space
- can't fix attributes, date, time, proprietary, group.
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Mar 10, 2010
Wondering if its possible to have a User's home folder that resides in a different partition (could be ntfs or ext). I don't mean mounting /home on a different partition. The home directory will still be available for adding more users but I'd like to have a specific User's folder away from /home
How can one achieve this?
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May 1, 2011
Installed Ubuntu along with Debian on my Notebook and use Grub Manager to choose between them on startup. Since i like Debian now a lot (in past days it was a very hard system to handle, but there has been some progress i noticed), i have to change some things (want Debian as main system now) For Ubuntu i have: (was meant to be main system on Notebook) "/", "/home" and a "swap" partition, but since i am now going to use mainly Debian, i wanted to store my files all in the "/home"-folder of my extended Ubuntu partition (has much more space available) not in the "/home" folder of the Debian system. So i want both (Debian and Ubuntu) to use the same extended partition ("/home") which i created for Ubuntu to save their files like downloads, videos, and so on.
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Apr 28, 2011
I just installed ubuntu 11.04, and so far my only problem is that every time i click on home folder, nothing happens.
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May 21, 2011
I can't believe I have a problem with something as basic as this. None the less here is my issue with getting to the home folder on 11.04 On the new side bar nav thing in 11.04 the very top item looks like a folder. Hover over it and it says 'Home Folder'. Clicking it takes you to the home folder. So far so good. Now, close the home folder and be on your desktop. Put in USB drive or some other external usb drive and open it.
Once it is open click the 'Home Folder' side nav link again. It does not open. As if that is not bad enough (and downright stupid) try this. Leave you USB drive or whatever it was open, and open another application. Your broswer will do (as it's already open). While your browser has focus, click the 'Home Folder' icon again. What do you expect to see? Yep, the USB drive is now your home folder. Must be, as 11.04 presents it when you click the Home Folder icon.
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Jan 3, 2010
I can't access the home-folder. There is a problem with ecryptfs
computer@computer:~$ cd /
computer@computer:/$ ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:
Inserted auth tok with sig [ ] into the user session keyring
mount: Operation not permitted
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Mar 20, 2010
Nothing is shown on the desktop and trying to access home or any folder inside gives me an error which says:
Could not open location 'file:///home/lisandro' No application is registered as handling this file
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May 1, 2010
My linux install will no longer boot, and I am looking to copy an *encrypted* home folder to an external harddrive so I can have all my files when I reinstall Ubuntu. Does anyone know how I can access those files and put them on the external HDD?
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May 23, 2010
I installed ubuntu 10.04 LTS few weeks ago, I formated old system file to ext4 but I didnt format my old /home (in ext3 format). So after, the installation I went to Home folder.. the ubuntu created defaults folders (Pictures, Documents, etc) But there isnt my old files!, all my pictures or settings gone!..
Now, I thougth all my old data gone forever. But watching my /home partition in gparted, I see have the same Used space like before. Means the files are there but cant see them, even with Ctrl + H.
And my account name is the same like old Distro's.
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