[nmglug] Meeting this week;

Wed May 23 12:33:20 PDT 2018

I'm not sure I understand this message

Brian

On 05/23/2018 08:06 AM, satguru at newmexico.com wrote:
> could i get a ride to and from a meeting some time
> have conflict this time
> maybe next time
>
>
> On Tue, May 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>
>> 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>
>>>> 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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