Lost Files
Tim
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Fri Apr 24 07:01:22 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 08:35 +0200, jolmstead wrote:
> and my lack of expertise my wife wanted me to move all of her
> OpenOffice.org files from the Linux operating system to Vista. So I
> thought I could just move everything from her home directory to
> the /media/disk directory and all would be good.
>
You're going to have to say what /media/disk refers to. A plugged in
hard drive, flash drive, or some internal drive.
The /media directory is used to mount removable/temporary media in, with
the mounted media becoming a sub-directory inside it. e.g. If I plugged
in a USB flash drive, it might be /media/usbdisk. With some media is
not written to until you unmount it, at that point the contents are
written, *then* it is actually unmounted. If you interrupt that
process, the files aren't written.
If you create a directory inside /media when there isn't actually any
media mounted in there, or using a name that's different from any
mounted media, you've just created an ordinary directory inside /media
on the file tree. Any files inside it will still be there.
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