[nmglug] Meeting this week;

[Brian O'Keefe]

Thanks Ted. What time at Baking Co.? I may try to get there if I can get 
a lift from my wife who has a similar time slot when she's out, 6-7:30. 
I'm still dealing with my OS breakdown and have done a few things. 
Briefly, I cloned my SSD to a new SSD and then analysed it with TestDisk 
(comes with Parted Magic and is a bootable CD). Found a ton of deleted 
folders that disappeared when I did the update as per the urging of 
Update Manager and toasted my 1.04 OS. TestDisk shows all the file 
structure in a partition, my Linux primary, both existing and the 
deleted folders that it can find. I had lost a major folder I named 
"Miscellany" (lots of important files over the years) and it shows up 
but has no files. My Music folder also shows up as not deleted but has 
no content either. There are hundreds of deleted files, of course as 
they haven't yet been overwritten (or they wouldn't show up). So I've 
lost at least the content of 2 major folders or the folder itself and 
apparently many others since I can't run Ubuntu Desktop. Which are what 
I can't begin to know and trying to restore them all so that Ubuntu 
16.04 works again would be difficult beyond measure! TestDisk is a 
pretty amazing tool and I could show it off. It gives one the chance to 
recover those deleted folders and copy and then restore them. I have so 
many deleted files that I have no idea how I would ever determine which 
are ones I want/need to add to a new 18.04 install. I also want to 
migrate all of my browser, email, etc. from my hacked firefox and 
thunderbird (had to to get them to work with my address books, 
bookmarks, etc. that the newest versions don't see for some reason). If 
I can make it I can bring the Parted Magic disk, my new USB 1TB drive 
that has my cloned SSD on it. The rsync that you helped me with Mark, is 
not bootable nor readable with test disk except with Parted Magic file 
browser (no deleted folders or files though as only TestDisk does that)  
and not from my current ldxe desktop file browser. It shows up as a 
bootable image but I get a grub error and a rescue prompt, with which I 
know not what to do. So a long story and I'm not even sure i can manage 
the meeting but I'd like to try.

Brian


On 05/21/2018 06:02 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
> NMGLugers, We meet again this week and if we see the same group we can
> follow up on several in-process repairs to software and installation.
> There might be a chance to "tweak" a new install to get the most
> appropriate software for a new user. We can look at upgrade issues for
> Ubuntu, and I have an 18.04 Live/Install usb to show off.  I did some
> reading and at one place it said the Upgrade of older systems is
> applied at the xx.04.1 level, that is in the first numbered release
> after the initial release. July 1st is the time these have appeared in
> the past, give or take some leeway.
> Anybody can write to the list and add comments or issues to address at
> the meeting on Thursday.
> Thank you, Ted P.
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