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I made a mistake & deleted a bunch of stuff off my computer by pushing the janitor clean up button how do I restore my computer back to a good connection or what do I have to do to fix the problem
This is the first I've heard of a janitor cleanup button. Which distro is that in? And why does the janitor cleanup button go deleting files (unless they are already in the trash bin)?
I suggest that you restore the lost files from your most recent backup.
I clicked a button sounding something like that a few years back, if I remember right, the button was labeled "System Restore", and after I clicked, my machine never worked again either :/ and I had to remove the operating system and switch to a different one.
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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In UBUNTU they call it janitor button in mandriva they make a command for it .
Never use that button nor the command .
The purpose of both is to clean up you're system .
Mostly it clean up far too much .
And you end with not working system.
It would be nice if we have in linux something like what we call in OSX Onyx
If you want to recover your data content files, you can use a live-cd such as PCLinuxOS and copy them to some other medium.
Then you can install your linux distribution from scratch. and copy your files back. Repair or re-installation from the installation CD/DVD is a possibility, but a clean installation has a better chance.
This is the first I've heard of a janitor cleanup button. Which distro is that in? And why does the janitor cleanup button go deleting files (unless they are already in the trash bin)?
I suggest that you restore the lost files from your most recent backup.
How do I do that I have a government computer & all that stuff was already programmed I can't get to the restore feature on here don't know where it's at can you help
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