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Spot on checked out folder and there were several files in there,just need to find what I'm doing to trigger it

Many thanks for your reply you may well be correct but I need to try and find what's starting it as I have never used that key combination.
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Evening All
Looking for suggestions as to what could be causing the 'red spot' in the lower left hand corner of my screen. If I reboot it goes away but reappears at random intervals
Thanks
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Many thanks to all I have solved the later part of my problem by reinstalling mint as for virtualbox think I'll give it a miss !

BG405 thanks for the suggestion but as I have said above I cannot open Synaptic

And now this

When I run sudo /sbin/vboxconfig I get sudo: /sbin/vboxconfig: command not found I have tried purging virtualbox completely via synaptic packet manager but as I said earlier it gets so far and then generates a error message which I was going to copy however I now find I cannot open the synaptic pack...

Thanks all for advice re failed instructions ran the script resulting
harry@harry-SATELLITE-L50-C:~$ /sbin/vboxconfig
bash: /sbin/vboxconfig: No such file or directory
Look at both posts and tried various suggestions for install to no avail .

Entered the first line of code and attempted to re-install VB but it again failed had the idea to the failure report maybe of help

Good Evening I been using linux mint for a few weeks now and thought I'd start to install Virtualbox so after watching a could of YT videos I downloaded virtualbox 6.1.10 and the Ubuntu 1804-19.04-19.10 to downloads. I then installed from downloads but the install failed from the synaptic packet man...

Thanks for reply but sorted it, dont ask why I tried a second memory stick and that worked ok, I purchased two new ones formated them both the same so why one should corrupt files and other OK
Thanks
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Just also found I cannot play any of the music that I copied over !

Good Morning yesterday installed linux mint 19.3 on my sony laptop and copied photos over from my other laptop only to find I cannot open them , I can open any image that's done on this laptop but nothing imported or downloaded any suggestions please

Sorry looks I 'cock up' my last post last night done some further investigating do not have the option to turn off the internal wifi card in bios. Petermint WIFI adapter turned to OFF in Linux it stays off after a reboot. mine does'nt Also discovered that when I use the F12 key aeroplane mode the on...

Thanks for your replies the in built wifi card Intel Dual Band AC 3160 started playing up sometime ago I purchased a new card and fitted it only to find the problem remaining in that some days it doesn't work some it does. It's been suggested that it could be a fault on the motherboard or the antenn...

Good Evening Had a look through topic's but did find what I was looking for, the internal wifi card in my laptop Intel 3160 is not working properly to be fair it was the same in windows 10 is it possible to disable it, my second question a local network keeps interfering with my wifi I have ticked '...

Good Afternoon All
It would appear that this post as stalled however can I ask for further help I'm sure that my built in WiFi card is interfering with my USB adapter so can I ask how to turn it off and if needed how to turn it back on.
Thanks
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Thanks for reply Here we go harry@harry-SATELLITE-L50-C:~$ inxi -Fxz System: Host: harry-SATELLITE-L50-C Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic Machine: Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: SAT...

Good Afternoon I'm new to linux and after running Virtualbox I took the jump and install Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 since installing I have found my WiFi adapter wanting it was OK whilst using VB. I have spent a few hours this afternoon looking for way's of improving reception under windows 10 my sign...

Thanks for replies
jonau01 have done what you suggested prior to my post
sdibaja May do just that but I have to find 'linux' software to replace some of my windows software
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