Files are present in Gnome but not there from the command line?
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Files are present in Gnome but not there from the command line?
Friends:
I have an Acer Aspire 5100 with Ubuntu 10.04 running. Recently I loaded from a storage drive all of my music library which happens to be in its orignal wav format. I was going to convert it to mp3 using lame or some other program. I worked with the files using the command line with some success. The files were there when I did this. No problem.
I came back to the computer after several days absence and when I got to a commandline I entered "ls -l" no files. Yes I went to the right directory. I logged in as Root no help. The files are not there according to the command line as far as I can tell.
Using Gnome the files are available and playable via the desktop. Are the files there or not?
In gnome, if you "right-click" on the icon, you get the properties among which is the actual file name with path. It will also tell you the permissions. As others said, you should cd to the containing folder and list.
well i only used the desktop folder for links and launchers
never did like using the desktop for storing files or building software
not even in the old days on MS xp and NOT in linux
well i only used the desktop folder for links and launchers
never did like using the desktop for storing files or building software
not even in the old days on MS xp and NOT in linux
Yeah same here... I keep all my files organized within my home directory. I have nothing in the Desktop directory at all; I even have my icons disabled on the desktop. It's all conky'd up
I figured it out. It was a permission problem. Some of the files were not readable and the permissions are not readable by linux. I changed the directories and low and behold it worked. Thanks for the help.
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