how can i move this folder of music from /root/Shared to /home/coffee/Shared ? thx
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how can i move this folder of music from /root/Shared to /home/coffee/Shared ? thx
Hello everyone. I used limewire to download some music files they said they were in /root/Shared but i can't get to them unless i'm in command line, when i su to superuser. is there a way for me to move that folder to /home/coffee/Shared
with command line? Thank you!
I hope you're not using the root account for your normal computer activities. You should have a normal user account for everyday stuff. root is only used for installing software, configuring the system, etc.
stress, i don't, i use a normal user named coffee, i then su to root to do stuff, like access locked paritions like /root, thats why i had to su to root to move those files.
Mr. Coffee: Those files would never have ended up in /root/Shared unless you had been running limewire as root. This is because the /root directory has permissions of rwx------, which means only root can access/write to it. Stress_junkie is right - be very careful about what you do as root!
stress, i don't, i use a normal user named coffee, i then su to root to do stuff, like access locked paritions like /root, thats why i had to su to root to move those files.
I thought that you must have run limewire as root. I'm glad that you usually use a normal account. I couldn't reconcile where you said you use su to get to the files, which showed that you use a normal account, with the fact that the files ended up under the root login directory, indicating that you had run limewire as root (as tredegar pointed out). I figured that maybe when limewire was installed only root could run it. That can happen when permissions are set incorrectly on an application's files.
ohhh i had no idea...See i thought u had to be root to install new programs and moidfy the system. Like if i try to change a .configure file, i have to always su to root before saving the file, such as a file that is in /etc parition. So when i install somthing like a ./configure like i did with limewire, i thought i had to be as root to install. No wonder those files got thrown into that /root directory i had no idea, lol i wonder how many other programs are in there Thanks for the tip guys.
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