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Actually what I did do is this....This could be what some other people are looking for. I had PCLOS KDE Plasma also installed along side Mint Cinnamon. So I logged into PCLOS and opened Dolphin file manager. I still didn't have permissions to do what I wanted to do. So, I closed Dolphin; opened Kons...

System: Kernel: 5.15.0-88-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7020 v: 00 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: t...

I am new to Linux Mint. I now have it installed on my desktop and an old laptop. I have used Linux since 2007. I have mostly used PCLOS but lately I needed help connecting to a new printer. Mint provided what I needed and was very easy to set up and get to working. I am well pleased with it. Great w...

OK. Thanks.

Something that I did really messed up my system. First I was getting the "software rendering mode". I did some searching in the forum and tried part of that solution. Then I decided to re-install Mint Cinnamon. Now during boot all I see is white and purple text that keeps scrolling. If i t...

May I ask you you aren't using the file sharing system built into Cinnamon? Thanks for the advice. It sounds more involved than I would have come up with on my own. I may give it a try. I am always willing to learn more useful things about these computer things. My knowlege is lacking in many areas...

Why not instaling Copy.com or Dropbox on both systems? If you upload your files to a cloud storage server and install the client on both systems, the advantage you have is that your files are stored on 1 location and accessible from multiple locations. And any file you modify/edit on 1 system will ...

Here is what I got when I tried to add the ppa in synaptic: Cannot add PPA: 'No JSON object could be decoded'.

Not sure how to overcome this error message.

Thanks. I will post back success or failure.

67GTA wrote:There is a ppa repo for Ubuntu/Mint. https://launchpad.net/nitroshare

Thanks. Do you know if this causes problems? I don't want to mess up my installation.

I have PCLOS 32 bit on my dektop and Mint Cinnamon on my old /Toshiba laptop. I have nitroshare installed on the desktop. Does anyone know if there is a version of Nitroshare for Mint Cinnamon?

Will try the links you gave and mark solved if indeed I find the solution. Thanks so much for you help, Harold edit... Started to try and use the tool FixParts from Rod Smith. After running into problems I emailed Rod and explained my situation with a couple of command line outputs. He answered righ...

Didn't look close enough at the results. My bad. Pretty sure that I used Gparted to do the partitioning. I have been thinking... Kinda dangerous for me. I have been using Rufus when in Win 7 to create USB drives from isos and been using the partition scheme MBR. I am trying it again using GPT partit...

I see that the partition table is mac. Does this mean that I need to re-install everything with a different partition table?
If so, how do I define which partition table to use and which is the best to use for multiboot?
I would like to keep Win 7 as well as Linux.

Run parted from the Mint LiveDVD. Here is the result: sudo parted -l Model: ATA HDS725050KLA360 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 2139MB 2139MB primary ntfs boot 2 2139MB 265GB 263GB pri...

Here are the results of command line from within pclos linux as root. Didnt think you meant to run them from inside Win 7? I do have bash installed. Tried to run the commands as user and root.

Did you remove Windows or is it a dual/triple boot? You might have to boot into Windows and turn off "Fast Boot" Do you have GPT partitioning? No, I didn't remove Windows. I am not familiar with 'Fast Boot'. I will try to get information and check this out. Not sure what GPT partitioning ...

I have a 64 bit microsoft authorized refurbished desktop that I bought with Win 7 already installed. I installed a dvd drive and more ram. Then I did some partitioning and installed PCLOS minime. Later when trying to install other distros there would be no drives or partitions showing during the ins...

Will do. Thanks

Just installed Mint 14 32 bit KDE and updated it. Rebooted then I installed some other applications that I needed. Rebooted. Then I installed LXDE desktop manager. logged out, logged back in using LXDE. Then decided to go back to KDE, rebooted and updated KDE again. Then I noticed that the menu had ...