[nmglug] Meeting this week;

Brian O'Keefe okeefe at cybermesa.com
Tue May 22 11:30:55 PDT 2018


Well, if you wait late long enough it becomes early, si?


On 05/22/2018 10:07 AM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
> I can give you a lift to Early, but I usually confuse that with Late;)
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com 
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>     I look forward to mtg. too Ted. Getting there at 5:30 is no
>     problem but I wouldn't get picked up until 7:40 or so, so I'm not
>     sure that will work. If it's nice I can wait outside. My wife's
>     thing is on Early street if someone could give me a lift there
>     that would be most welcome.
>
>     Don't worry about engaging in my fiasco but I have learned a
>     lesson, though I don't know how I'll resolve it and getting back
>     to a simpler OS set-up as you describe and still have at least the
>     most important apps that I use thru Wine or otherwise. And what's
>     this about backups? We don't need no stinking backups! (Hah). I
>     know that the rsync was supposed to create a snapshot of my system
>     and all in it. I know that you're not dealing with this sort of
>     thing but it's good info none the less. It seems that the update
>     not only deleted folders it resurrected some back into my OS and
>     they pop up in my file browser after I had deleted them! I wonder
>     what went on with that update. what a scramble.
>
>     Anyway, if I can make it perhaps someone can at least be amused!
>
>     I'll try to make it, we'll see.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>
>     On 05/22/2018 08:16 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>
>         Brian, I look forward to meeting you. I arrive at the Baking
>         Co. at
>         about 5pm, meeting officially starts at 5:30. It runs till 7pm
>         when
>         the cafe closes.  Several members adjourn to the Second St.
>         brewery on
>         2nd St., I usually pass on that and go home. I will not
>         comment on the
>         listing you have of things to reveal and repair.  I choose to
>         make my
>         computing simpler and move on to making things work
>         adequately; then
>         carefully save my own files, yielding to progress the OS and
>         applications. The higher level administrators at our meeting will
>         likely be able to comment and assist you.
>         See you Thursday.
>         Thank you, Ted P.
>
>         On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Brian O'Keefe
>         <okeefe at cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>             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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