Ubuntu Installation :: Delete Folder Under C?

Feb 28, 2011

I am a newbie to ubuntu. I just have a simple question: I used wubi to install ubuntu and the installation procedure was perfect. One problem arose after installation, the c:/ubuntu becomes almost 30G! Can I delete it?

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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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Apr 24, 2010

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Jun 8, 2011

upon browsing the home folder in my ubuntu system, i came across a hidden cache folder..

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Jun 13, 2011

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Jun 19, 2010

I'm using my free 2Gb of Ubuntu One space to back up some stuff and synch files between a laptop and desktop.

I synched a folder ok to try it out. Then I used the FAQ at

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to manually unsynchronise the folder as the right click option was greyed out.

But now I want to delete that folder from Ubuntu One using the Web site. The 'top level' folder does not have a 'delete' option. I've deleted everything under it but just want to get rid of the husk.

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Sep 24, 2010

I have a 500GB iomega portable HD. I used Gparted to split the drive into two partitions, a fat32 of roughly 400GB and an EXT4 partition of roughly 100GB.

On my EXT4 partition, there is a folder called lost+found. I can't delete it because I need to be root, yet my account has administrator priviliges (but I CAN rename the folder). I can't create other folders on this partition, nor can I copy-paste and files on there either.

Basically, that partition is unuseable. In the properties of the folder, it says that I am not the owner so I cannot change the permissions. (It is definitely MY hard drive)
All options are greyed out.

How do I give myself permission to use this EXT4 partition?

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Nov 14, 2010

I accidently selected the wrong folder to sync with ubuntu one. It has now added .u1conflict to all my files (around 8000 of them ) and now I can't stop the folder syncing. I've followed these instructions This just returns an error:

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FolderDeleteError: DOES_NOT_EXIST (subscribed=, suggested_path=~/Music, generation=,
node_id=dc8be355-c4dc-4111-9650-b4744aeae2a4, volume_id=1897e926-212b-424e-87ee-

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May 19, 2011

I installed a program in /usr/share on Ubuntu 10.04, but the program was actually bigger than there was room on that partition. It gave me some trouble, because when I tried to delete the folder, it said it couldn't move it to the Trash. When I restarted, it won't let me log in Ubuntu again...

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Feb 5, 2010

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I moved all her sent e-mails back to the main "Sent" folder, and then tried to delete Templates-Sent, but Evolution just says it can't do that.

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Sep 9, 2010

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Jul 4, 2011

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i'm confronting atm. I need to create a folder where ppl can copy files and i need to be sure that those files cannot be deleted after they are copied there. The folder will be accessed over network, and i need to be sure no one will delete somebody else's files.Also i need to tell you that i'm working with regular users, so creating a folder for each user and chown/chmod-ing it won't do the trick(allready tried and ended up with a whole lot of files in the parent directory).I also tried chattr +a but that doesn't allow them to write new files in the folder.

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Apr 22, 2011

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May 30, 2011

I am running the latest version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu 11.04) which i setup as a dual boot OS with Windows XP SP3. I was listening to my MP3s using the Banshee music player on Ubuntu. My MP3s reside on an NTFS drive (which I mounted in Ubuntu to hear the MP3s). Via the Banshee player I deleted all songs from a particular folder and thought nothing of it until I later booted into Windows.

I saw the folder that had the songs I had deleted the songs and and thought I'd delete the folder as well except that I couldn't. It said the file might be corrupted. I logged backed into Ubuntu (Windows XP was shutdown not hibernated as I remember hearing that on Hibernating, you can't properly delete/copy files on Windows partitions). In Ubuntu too, I wasn't able to delete this folder - either via the Folder explorer or via terminal. I see a file named ".fuse_hidden0000041b00000017" along with some other files I had deleted (in Turquoise colour). I didn't see any posts in this forum with a help on resolving this issue

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Aug 13, 2011

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Oct 3, 2009

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Dec 23, 2010

Is there any function to delete a folder which has few files in it ?I tried rimdir() bit it can only delete empty folders; unlink() can not delete directory entries. any other function ?

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Dec 5, 2009

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Jun 24, 2011

I want to limit delete of a particular folder in the user's home folder and to restrict any add/change/delete on files in that restricted directory.
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/home/myuser/_protected/1.txt //only read
How can I do that on Ubuntu server?

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Jun 27, 2010

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Jul 17, 2010

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Dec 22, 2010

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Also, the laptop with XP is on the wireless with and internal IP of 10.0.0.135 and my PC is on the LAN connection with and internal IP of 10.0.0.1 I'm sort of familiar with networks, but I have NO clue as to how to do this.

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