[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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