the results of that command for me are useless, as it produces an immense array of permission denied error messages.
culling all of that out, makes it worse than just manually looking for text file.
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AZgl1500 wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:56 am
the results of that command for me are useless, as it produces an immense array of permission denied error messages.
culling all of that out, makes it worse than just manually looking for text file.
Yes, but your systems are known to be weird. Run this to fix your file ownership: sudo chown -Rc $USER:$USER $HOME.
AZgl1500 wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:56 am
the results of that command for me are useless, as it produces an immense array of permission denied error messages.
culling all of that out, makes it worse than just manually looking for text file.
Yes, but your systems are known to be weird. Run this to fix your file ownership: sudo chown -Rc $USER:$USER $HOME.
um, not sure that was a smart move:
as that command was runnng, I noted that every single instance, it was changing changed ownership of '/home/john/Backup/*
I hit Control-C to stop it.
all of that is in a separate partition labeled /backup and is where all of these backup folders reside:
gm10 wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:10 pm
Only you would think of mounting your timeshift backups in your home folder. But best not derail this thread further.
uh,
they are NOT in my home folder, they are in the separate partition /backup
that command I ran, should have had a way to exclude the home/media/backup but I didn't mention that it was set up that way.
until that command was run, there has never been one instance of that being a problem.
Timeshift automatically ignores the media folders anyway.
AZgl1500 wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:14 pmthey are NOT in my home folder, they are in the separate partition /backup
That's arguing semantics. With the Timeshift backup mounted in your home directory, from a file hierarchy perspective they are in your home directory. Else the find command wouldn't have found them.
In this case you can add, I think, add the -mount option to the find command and it should not descended into filesystem parts stored on other partitions.
For me it's one of those "must have " commands and it's on my command cheat-sheet , stuck to the desk .
Having files that I own but can't open is an insane situation , and that command is a one-line fix .
Call me old-fashioned ..... ageing brain ( may have been accidentally hard-wired with Unix thinking at some point ) .
# /backup was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=fa5463c0-4ce3-4f28-aaee-4feff690ad59 /media/mark/backup ext4 defaults 0 2
# /storage was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=860d6bcb-38aa-4c70-aaa6-af00c09378fa /media/mark/storage ext4 defaults 0 2
"Tune for maximum Smoke and then read the Instructions".
# /backup was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=fa5463c0-4ce3-4f28-aaee-4feff690ad59 /media/mark/backup ext4 defaults 0 2
# /storage was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=860d6bcb-38aa-4c70-aaa6-af00c09378fa /media/mark/storage ext4 defaults 0 2
Okay, used the Disks app to make the change, but the icon on the Desktop showed up as a text file, instead of a Disk Icon.
backupdisplay.png
This is how I administered the Disks App, should it have been done differently so the /backup icon shows up properly?
backup.png
when I Double Click on that TextDocument looking icon, it shows up properly as a Disk
AZgl1500 wrote: ⤴Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:47 pm
I was unable to find that edit launcher app, it is not in Software Manager or Synaptic.
and when I searched on the web, just found a lot of links that weren't related to that app.
if it makes any difference, I am using 18.3 Cinnamon
It isn't an App, just right click on icon you have on the desktop and select properties / edit launcher. Or right click on an empty area on the desktop and create a new launcher.
"Tune for maximum Smoke and then read the Instructions".
HaveaMint wrote: ⤴Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:57 pm
It isn't an App, just right click on icon you have on the desktop and select properties / edit launcher. Or right click on an empty area on the desktop and create a new launcher.
It's not a launcher, it's provided by gvfs. But you're both missing the obvious. He configured "/backup" as the icon name:
Obviously that icon doesn't exist, that's why he gets the placeholder. Clear the icon name field and you'll get the default partition icon back. Until you break something else.
HaveaMint wrote: ⤴Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:57 pm
It isn't an App, just right click on icon you have on the desktop and select properties / edit launcher. Or right click on an empty area on the desktop and create a new launcher.
It's not a launcher, it's provided by gvfs. But you're both missing the obvious. He configured "/backup" as the icon name:
Obviously that icon doesn't exist, that's why he gets the placeholder. Clear the icon name field and you'll get the default partition icon back. Until you break something else.
Okay,
that is the first time I have used 'Disks' so was not familiar with the ramifications of the fields.
the standard icon is back for the drive partition
icon.png
and it wasn't broken, it just didn't react like I thought it should