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Thank you so much....so simple when you know how?

When I try to open a .txt document, “Document Viewer” pops up with “Unable to open document”, I have to right click on the file I want to open and then “Open with” and select Text Editor”, how can I resolve this please?

Thank you everyone for your help and advice, I really appreciate it,, my issue is now solved it seems.
Thanks again.

This is what I now have after following advice. and Low Disk Space seems to have disappeared for now. pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~$ tree /boot/efi /boot/efi └── EFI ├── BOOT │   ├── bkpbootx64.efi │   ├── bootx64.efi │   └── fbx64.efi └── ubuntu ├── BOOTX64.CSV ├── grub.cfg ├── grubx64.efi ├── mmx64.ef...

Thank you, I have not used code tags before, I hope this is correct? pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~$ tree /boot/efi /boot/efi ├── 2019-09-22-07-img │   ├── blkdev.list │   ├── blkid.list │   ├── dev-fs.list │   ├── sdb1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa │   ├── sdb-chs.sf │   ├── sdb-hidden-data-after-mbr │   ├── sdb-...

Thank you everyone, reading these points make me realise that I am completely out of my depth here, I do not know where to start and could do with an idiots guide (

Thank you, here is the result of df, it means nothing to me:- pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 3494904 0 3494904 0% /dev tmpfs 712124 1392 710732 1% /run /dev/sda2 1144971480 154264336 932476056 15% / tmpfs 3560604 59664 3500940 2% /dev/shm tmpfs...

I have “Low Disk Space” showing in the Task Bar, it is because I have a fairly new external 500GiB hd installed. The external hd is formatted to ntfs, unused 465.68 GiB, the drive is empty and I do not know where the remaining 34+ Gib are, or is the figure 500 just rounded up from 465.68? I'm using ...

Thanks carum carvi, as you do, I think that as the drive is running as I want it to, I'll leave it with .Fat32. The only other irritating thing is that I now have "Low Disk Space" showing in the task bar for thisexternal drive, but I will start another Topic if I cannot find a result here, Thank you...

Before I had read the latest suggestions, in frustration I had reformatted the drive using Fat32 rather than .ext4, and tried that. I found that the drive opened and I could write, save, open and close the folders within. I also tried the drive in my separate Laptop with Windows 10, and found everyt...

Quite right in what you say catweazel, my apologies for "no luck", and I'll try what you suggest.

Thank you coffee 412

I have been trying your suggestion for the last few days without success.
When I look at the drive in Gparted, I see this:- /media/myname/e804b79f-d0a0-4ec1-a0c8-8c897160005e.
I have tried various combinations but with no luck, could you advise me further please?

Thank you.

Hello, LM19 Tara 64-Bit I have bought and installed a 500Gb external drive, formatted it to .ext4 with the onboard gParted. However, I cannot write to it. When I look at Permissions I see:- Owner – Root Folder access – greyed out Group – Root Folder access – greyed out Others Folder access – greyed ...

Thank you both for your prompt replies.........that's that sorted.

I do use Clonezilla but just thought that there might be an easier, quicker option.

Thanks again.

If my LM19 HD fails and I have Timeshift on an seperate external drive, can I do a clean install LM19 to a second new HD and do a “restore” to it and therefore recover my system? If so, how would I go about this.

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Thank you both, until LM19 I have always used clonezilla, I have totally misunderstood the use of Timeshift, as I read your answers I realised this.
Thank you again.

I have now installed Timeshift on an external hd, and removed it from a partition on my main hd. A couple of questions please:- 1. If the main hd ever crashes, can I reinstall my LM19 backup to a larger or smaller new hd from the external drive, or must the new drive be the same size? (if that makes...

Thank you deepakdeshp,

That is great help, I'll consider my issue solved.
thanks again.

Hello

What is the best method of cleaning LM19, removing packages, old kernels and junk etc from the system.
Thank you

Solved:
I found, and followed on line this link ; - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-ubunt ... wont-boot/

Thank you all for your input.