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Marked as solved and thanks to all! For future reference here are the commands I ended up using to edit all the text files in the folder:

find </location/on/disc> -type f -exec sed -i...

Excellent and great point. I will look a little deeper. sed was the first tool I'd found and for this one somewhat simple task it did a nice job! I sure couldn't imagine trying to go through a full...

Thank you!!!

Excellent! Thank you for the tips. Will look up awk and grep.

I'm very glad that for niche needs like this, there is help available from someone more knowledgeable. Such a huge help. I can't...

Thank you! You are the best!!


sed 's/\are the best!!\b/Rock!!/'

I have a case where I'm replacing the word "ass" with donkey over the course of several txt files for my kid's ipods. This worked pretty well using Mousepad (find and replace).

But... I happened...

I've had a few cases where I've bricked or corrupted one of these (using ubuntu and rockbox) and DD has saved the device.

I usually just use another "known good" ipod nano with the same storage...

This thing:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD464LL/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter

Would this work in Ubuntu?

I have some old Firewire peripherals that work great but would like...

Is it possible to watch a USB port to find out what messages pass through to a hardware device?

I have a sound card that I like but unfortunately it requires some hoops to be jumped through to get it to work in Linux. I need to initalize in Win XP to get it to 'boot' up and be recognized. Once...

For some reason the computer is pretty temperamental about suspending if anything firewire has been connected (audio in my case).

Is there any common place to look to fix this?

Audio is pretty fussy (interfaces via USB and Firewire and latency). Imagine trying to play a piano that responded a second after you struck a note. I'm sure a musician could train their brain to...

What you had posted may be an issue, but not in my case since I wasn't trying to restore at all. I was actually trying to create a snapshot. It wouldn't do anything other than go back to the start...

Interesting and thank you for the replies! I believe the easiest course of action is to do a fresh install of OS and all my software (audio production so LOTS of configuration and installation of...

I had a corrupted file system on a new 22.04 install so I decided to create a backup of home/<user>. I then reinstalled (same computer) from a Live CD and pasted the original home/user to the new...

Makes perfect sense and thank you! I have made a habit of DD since I've dual booted for a while and it's an easy way to duplicated all partitions.

So... does backing up the home directory also...

I just had a problem where Timeshift had some kind of bug, froze, and corrupted a very complex fresh install of Ubuntu. I probably have 10 hours of software installation/configuration. So tears may...

Ok... maybe that's the problem. I tried (by just clicking) the old ubuntu install and it said permission denied. I'll try mounting it first as root and see what happens.

I would like to be able to access the data from a Live CD incase I have trouble in the future. I don't care about encryption etc. I would just like to be able to see my Ubuntu partitions later if...

i went into Timeshift to create a backup snapshot (to the same drive as the OS) and it would not do it. The program just seemed to do nothing and go back to the main screen after I hit "take...

I'd like to try to remove every trace of both of these and reinstall Jack2. Is there a good way to do this?

I did this:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-configure-pipewire-linux/

and regretted it. Maybe it would work if it were setup by pros... but I didn't have the patience to get it working....

All very good info and thank you! And yes, I use a backup tool. I like GUIs, so I use RSync with the GUI called Luckybackup.

I assume in this case, I should do nothing other than format and name the drive (no automounting). Is this correct? In other words, it should show up in:
/media/home/user/

If I recall,...

I spent over a half day trying to get this scan tool to work with FORScan software to do some diagnostics on my Ford Powerstroke Diesel (7.3L) and this may save someone else some time. I followed...