Ubuntu :: Delete Desktop Folder Without Deleting Contents
Oct 7, 2010
Im assuming there is a simple answer for this but I have yet to find it in forums. I have 2 partitions mounted on my ubuntu desktop, one is Windows C: drive labeled "Core" and the other is D: drive labeled "Reserve" but for some reason I have a second Windows folder on my desktop, when I attempted to delete it it began to delete the Windows files as well, one forum said to right click and "remove from desktop" but this option isnt in the menu. How can I just delete the folder?
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Jun 10, 2010
how do i delete a folder and its contents from terminal? when i tried to delete the folder it returns a- permission error,,-
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Jul 14, 2011
I have KDE 4.6.5 and (up until now) I could see and access files and folders on my Desktop. My Desktop was set to display the contents of /home/john/Desktop.
I set this up from Right-click --> Folder View Settings --> View --> Layout --> Folder View. Then Location --> specify a folder == /home/john/Desktop.
But now when I do this I don't see the contents of the /home/john/Desktop folder. Instead I see a blank screen with a tab on the RHS labeled "New Activity".
How do I revert to viewing the traditional Desktop and its traditional contents?
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Mar 14, 2011
Today I uninstalled Zimbra desktop from my Ubuntu 10.04. After doing it, I am facing several problems due to changes in system configuration.
My Home Folder contents are shown on Desktop and if I delete them from Desktop, they are also deleted from the Home Folder. I don't understand why this is happening.
Also, from the side pane in Explorer, the option of Home Folder is not present any more. When ever I go to Home Folder, on the side pane is shows that I am on desktop and the location bar shows that I am in Home Folder.
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Jul 22, 2011
My ~/Desktop is generally kept empty.
Yesterday on start resume from hibernate, it looked as if my encrypted home directory was unmounted; or at least instead of my $HOME contents I got a bunch of files related to this.
I rebooted the system, and since then my desktop has been rendering icons for every file in my home directory, but not updating the icons until the next reboot, if I change anything in $HOME while it is running.
I opened the gconf-editor and checked: the box for using the home dir as the desktop is not checked. I even tried toggling it and the option that controls drawing the desktop on/off in every possible combination. Nadda. The only thing that works is turning off drawing the desktop.
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Jun 29, 2010
My home folders contents like download , documents ....
ae displayed in desktop too
and i can't hide them
and if i delete one of them the original one will be deleted
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Jun 29, 2010
I started my computer and i goto home/downloads. i found all downloaded are deleted. and every folder and file in home folder are displayed in desktop.
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Apr 18, 2010
i locked a folder of pictures on my linux and now want to delete them, but it wont even let me open the folder or do anything with it, what do i do to unlock it then delete i
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Sep 6, 2011
Recently I setup a system for a non-technical user. He is only using Firefox, Pidgin and OpenOffice for about 2 hours a day. I have created a folder "/home/jim/myFiles" where he can save his document files. But Jim has accidentally deleted his myFiles folder on 2 occasions. He had intended to delete a file in that folder. Is there a way to lock the folder so that the user and create/read/write documents in that folder but not delete the folder itself?
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Jan 3, 2010
I have a bunch of folders with different stuff in them. I would like to be able to put a different image on each folder to represent the contents.
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Mar 10, 2010
I have Intel Pentium3 motherboard model 845GVSR with 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD ROM and 4 USB slots but no Floppy Drive.My PC was working fine until I deleted the contents of hard drive accidentally using trial version of killer software.I ried to install Linux by making a boot-able CD, but it did not work.Then i tried to make a boot-able USB using Universal Notebook Installer, it did not work either. I just get the Error " Error loading operating system.Then I tried a free software from net by the name James Format Tools - DOS on USB. Using this computer did boot but DOS did not install and I got the error message "invalid drive specification".I understand that now I will have to write boot sector afresh and will have to Format the hard drive,, but how to do this as all my attempts to get to the hard drive failed
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Feb 2, 2011
can i use one samba share with a folder showing the contents of another directory.shortcuts don't work on non ubuntu systems and it won't resolve links to files no on the share
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Jun 11, 2010
I have a folderA that contains folderB that contains a lot of files. I would like to get rid of folderB, but not its contents. I want those contents to be inside of folderA. How can I accomplish this on the commandline?
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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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Feb 21, 2010
I should know this but I figured I'd ask before I screw something up.
What is the command to cp just and only the contents of a folder, not the folder itself, into a new folder?
Code: cp -R /path/to/folder/ /to/new/folder/
Is this right?
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Jul 26, 2010
Is there a way to essentially make all of one folders content as a system link in another folder (I have "My Documents" on my external and my computer, they have different things, I'd like to have one "My Documents" which shows both contents and hide the other two
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May 9, 2010
SO after using Testdisk to recover some images, the folders recup_dir.1 & 2 have saved in my FIle System area, when ever I try to press delete noting happens. I have also tried rm -f -rrm -f -fIt still dont delete, I have also deleted my user account and made a new one, but the files are still there.
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Mar 23, 2010
/root/.local/share/Trash/files/I have a tar backup file in there and can't get rid of it. I've tried from root with Nautilus, the files disappear for a couple of seconds and then reappear.
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Oct 25, 2010
Instead of using the Firefox Better Privacy addon or the Macromedia website to manage Flash Cookies (LSO's), I would just like to periodically, delete the ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects directory.
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Feb 9, 2010
I know that rm -i will prompt wether you want to delete each file.But rm -i -r will prompt for each file in each subdirectory recursively. How to make it prompt just for the directory itself, and then delete its contents without asking?How to delete all the files in a directory without deleting . and ..?How to recursively delete all tilde files in a directory?How to GUI file managers delete files to Trash? Where is this "Trash" located? Can you delete to trash in the command line?
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Feb 13, 2011
I try to build live usb-hdd on my Lenny and get this problem:
Code:
# lh_build
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[code]...
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Jan 28, 2010
I have a USB drive that has a TON of folders on its root level. I want to remove all those folders and their contents except three of them. I know if I do rm -rf that will kill everything, is there a way to exclude three folders, say folder1 folder2 newfolder, and do it all in one statement?
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Apr 24, 2010
I'm using ubuntu server 9.10 for a home build NAS. Everything is working great just have one more thing to figure out. I have Samba set up to access my files and I set up a recycle feature so anything deleted will get moved to a Recycled folder. (I learned this the hard way after hitting delete key by accident while browsing the shares in windows. Lost 100 GB of data)
Now it is for the most part working but the permissions on folders isn't getting set right. If I delete a file in a share I can go to Recycle bin folder and delete the file for good. But if I delete a folder I can not access that folder to delete or restore from the Recycle bin folder. I have to chmod the folder before I can do anything with it. Anything I can change to get folders deleted via windows to have the right permissions when it is moved to the Recycle bin folder?
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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 11, 2011
I have 2 folders that are synced using rsync. Right now if I delete a file in the source folder, the destination folder still retains that file. Is there a way to get rsync to delete files if they were deleting at the source?I could not find anything in the man page.not sure if I'm missing something or if that feature just doesn't exist.
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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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Nov 18, 2009
I purchased new Kingston Datatraveler 32GB Pendrive after i copied some of the files into that around 2GB.
But whenever iam trying to delete those content it is giving the following error. Readonly file system actually it is not.
I tried the same in windows and linux.
Is there any way by which i can delete the content or format the pendrive.
By using the command
Now I want to forcefully format the pendrive or is there any tool or utility which will help me to format the USB.
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Nov 29, 2010
I accidentally hit the delete button on a folder. Luckily, it was still in the trash and I could restore it. However, I was wondering if there was a setting that could display an 'Are you sure?' question before deleting the folder in case this happens in the future again.
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Jul 7, 2011
I accidentally created a folder in my /home directory and its ticking me off because i cant delete it and im anal about my organization on the computer and having this extra empty folder.
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Jul 5, 2010
When try recover a file from thash folder, i cant see the contents, but, when make properties to the folder, show 47 files on the trash folder, and the docklets of docky, also show files (41 files). Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
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