Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files. - Kubuntu users

[Peter Merchant]

On 01/02/16 13:29, Terry Coles wrote:

On Monday 01 February 2016 11:50:39 Peter Merchant wrote:

Terry is probably the best person to advise here, but I welcome all help.

I now have in my /home/ directory the following directories, and I would
like to know where they should properly be, or if they should just be
marked as Hidden. Can anyone look at their setup and advise?



activitymanager
akonadi_migration_agent




remoteview
shutdown



I'm kind of busy right now, because I want to get the software for the Model 
Town tested out before I
return tomorrow morning.  We tested the lights this morning with a satisfactory 
response from the people
there, but now we need to get the PWM up and running to finally confirm that 
the whole thing is
satisfactory.

However, I think you should be able to thin this list out fairly well if you 
use the Package Manager.  I
couldn't get Muon to do this, but if you install Synaptic, you can examine the 
properties of each package
(eg amarok) and then click on the 'Installed Files' tab.  This will give you a 
list of all the installation
locations of each component of the package.  There are lots, so I'm not 
convinced I could give you as
comprehensive an overview anyway, but I should be able to help with any files 
that are left.

Thanks Terry, I appreciate that you want to get the pi-zero working for 
tomorrow, and didn't want to upset that.


Current status - I have found the destination and moved some:


_to .kde/share:_
applnk
icons
kde4

Autostart is empty --> delete

_to .kde/share/apps_
activitymanager
akonadi
amarok
gwenview
kcookiejar
kded
kfileplaces
klipper
kmail2
knewstuff3
konqueror
konsole
korganizer
kres-migrator
kscreen
kssl
ktp
libmuon
messageviewer
nepomuk
plasma-desktop
RecentDocuments
remoteview

So I'll try your suggestion on the others.

P.

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Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files. - Kubuntu users

[Terry Coles]

On Monday 01 February 2016 11:50:39 Peter Merchant wrote:
> Terry is probably the best person to advise here, but I welcome all help.
> 
> I now have in my /home/ directory the following directories, and I would
> like to know where they should properly be, or if they should just be
> marked as Hidden. Can anyone look at their setup and advise?


> activitymanager
> akonadi_migration_agent



> remoteview
> shutdown



I'm kind of busy right now, because I want to get the software for the Model 
Town tested out before I 
return tomorrow morning.  We tested the lights this morning with a satisfactory 
response from the people 
there, but now we need to get the PWM up and running to finally confirm that 
the whole thing is 
satisfactory.

However, I think you should be able to thin this list out fairly well if you 
use the Package Manager.  I 
couldn't get Muon to do this, but if you install Synaptic, you can examine the 
properties of each package 
(eg amarok) and then click on the 'Installed Files' tab.  This will give you a 
list of all the installation 
locations of each component of the package.  There are lots, so I'm not 
convinced I could give you as 
comprehensive an overview anyway, but I should be able to help with any files 
that are left.

-- 

Terry Coles


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Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files. - Kubuntu users

[Peter Merchant]

On 31/01/16 21:42, Peter Merchant wrote:




On 31 January 2016 at 16:06, Peter Merchant  
wrote:

This morning I ran freefilesync as a backup program, but didn't have it
configured correctly. It has deleted some files and now my system is 
totally

not as I intended it.

I can get into dolphin and see all the files in the wastebasket, but 
every
time I try to restore a file it tells me that the file already 
exists and

won't restore it.


--

Thanks Victor,
I spoke with Clive this afternoon, and he suggested that I boot from a 
live disk and then move the stuff from Trash. It didn't like it 
initially, but using Dolphin as root worked. I have copied all of the 
files back, but unfortunately have a bunch of folders in my home 
directory that I think should be elsewhere.  I didn't know where they 
should be.


So it hasn't really helped yet, but I'm getting there I think.

Peter



Terry is probably the best person to advise here, but I welcome all help.

I now have in my /home/ directory the following directories, and I would 
like to know where they should properly be, or if they should just be 
marked as Hidden. Can anyone look at their setup and advise?


activitymanager
akonadi_migration_agent
amarok
applnk
Autostart  -- in .config, .local/share, and .kde already.
config
desktoptheme
env
gwenview
icons
k3b
kabc
kaffeine
kconf_update
kcookiejar
kde4
kded
kfileplaces
khelpcentre
klipper
kmail2
kmplayer
knewstuff3
knotes
knotesmigrator
konqueror
konsole
korganizer
kpdf
kres-migrator
kscreen
kssl
ktorrent
ktp
libmuon
messageviewer
nepomuk
networkmanagement
okular
plasma-desktop
Public
RecentDocuments
rekonq
remoteview
shutdown


Wow, that's a lot more than I thought. Some of these I am sure that I 
don't use, but I really would like to get knotes back.


Oh, and B***dy dropbox won't let me log on. It keep insisting that there 
is a newer version that I must have.


Thanks for any help.



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Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

[Peter Merchant]

On 31/01/16 19:08, Victor Churchill wrote:

Hi Peter,

It sounds a bit odd that your dolphin utility is sayingthe file
already exists. Perhaps from the command line you could say
...$ cd ~/WhereItShouldBe
...$ ls -al \*XXX\*
or
...$ find . -name \*XXX\*
where XXX is a string you expect to see in the file name.

Following on from Andrew's post: if you know the name and location of
the file you lost, you should (hopefully) be able to go to a terminal
window and say
$ cd ~/.local/share/Trash( or local equivalent)
$ find . -name MyLostFile
If that results in a path to a copy of your file, then
$ cp pathToTrashCopyOfMyFile ~/theRightPlace/RestoredFileName

If the file was shown to exist in part 1 above and the copy fails then
that may indicate that the ownership or permissions have gotten
confused. Other than that though, you should ideally not need to go in
as root.

best regards,
웃
Victor Churchill,
Netley Abbey, Southampton
07970 844083


On 31 January 2016 at 16:06, Peter Merchant  wrote:

This morning I ran freefilesync as a backup program, but didn't have it
configured correctly. It has deleted some files and now my system is totally
not as I intended it.

I can get into dolphin and see all the files in the wastebasket, but every
time I try to restore a file it tells me that the file already exists and
won't restore it.

I am hoping that this is all I need to do, but I am not sure how to get into
the wastebasket from the Command line and force the restoring of the files.

Alternatively I could go to my previous backup, but again I am not sure that
it will overwrite the files.

Perhaps I need to do it as root?

Any advice welcomed.

Peter

--

Thanks Victor,
I spoke with Clive this afternoon, and he suggested that I boot from a 
live disk and then move the stuff from Trash. It didn't like it 
initially, but using Dolphin as root worked. I have copied all of the 
files back, but unfortunately have a bunch of folders in my home 
directory that I think should be elsewhere.  I didn't know where they 
should be.


So it hasn't really helped yet, but I'm getting there I think.

Peter

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Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

[Victor Churchill]

Hi Peter,

It sounds a bit odd that your dolphin utility is sayingthe file
already exists. Perhaps from the command line you could say
...$ cd ~/WhereItShouldBe
...$ ls -al \*XXX\*
or
...$ find . -name \*XXX\*
where XXX is a string you expect to see in the file name.

Following on from Andrew's post: if you know the name and location of
the file you lost, you should (hopefully) be able to go to a terminal
window and say
$ cd ~/.local/share/Trash( or local equivalent)
$ find . -name MyLostFile
If that results in a path to a copy of your file, then
$ cp pathToTrashCopyOfMyFile ~/theRightPlace/RestoredFileName

If the file was shown to exist in part 1 above and the copy fails then
that may indicate that the ownership or permissions have gotten
confused. Other than that though, you should ideally not need to go in
as root.

best regards,
웃
Victor Churchill,
Netley Abbey, Southampton
07970 844083


On 31 January 2016 at 16:06, Peter Merchant  wrote:
> This morning I ran freefilesync as a backup program, but didn't have it
> configured correctly. It has deleted some files and now my system is totally
> not as I intended it.
>
> I can get into dolphin and see all the files in the wastebasket, but every
> time I try to restore a file it tells me that the file already exists and
> won't restore it.
>
> I am hoping that this is all I need to do, but I am not sure how to get into
> the wastebasket from the Command line and force the restoring of the files.
>
> Alternatively I could go to my previous backup, but again I am not sure that
> it will overwrite the files.
>
> Perhaps I need to do it as root?
>
> Any advice welcomed.
>
> Peter
>
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[Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

[Peter Merchant]

This morning I ran freefilesync as a backup program, but didn't have it 
configured correctly. It has deleted some files and now my system is 
totally not as I intended it.


I can get into dolphin and see all the files in the wastebasket, but 
every time I try to restore a file it tells me that the file already 
exists and won't restore it.


I am hoping that this is all I need to do, but I am not sure how to get 
into the wastebasket from the Command line and force the restoring of 
the files.


Alternatively I could go to my previous backup, but again I am not sure 
that it will overwrite the files.


Perhaps I need to do it as root?

Any advice welcomed.

Peter

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Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

[Andrew]

If it's of any help, on my system the 'Rubbish Bin' is located here:
~/.local/share/Trash/

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