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@ Dennis N
I used:

rsync -rtui --exclude=.* /home/ben/ /media/backup
I didn't get an error thia time, just a lot of repeated lines.

ude=.*/ben/exclude=.*/backup/etc/security/sepermit.conf...

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@ Dennis N I tried :

rsync -rtui /home/ /media/backup exclude=.*
and I got into an endless loop....had to ^C.
This is the last part of the loop:

>f+++++++++...

This is a single user computer. I am the only user on it.

@ Dennis N - That readout was truncated. There are a LOT of .hidden files and folders.

@ sudodus - Permissions on those files are -rw------.

@ Dennis N - I had no problem with sudodus' rsync -av Source/ Destination, just backing up one folder, but it does not work for a real backup because I get a "Permission Denied" on all of the...

@ sudodus +1 - Thank you for the exercises....and they were good ones. I learned a lot. Like "Keep it simple!"

I checked and the pendrives are formatted ext4. I used two pendrives. I did this with the first:

sudo rsync -varxPzh /source/ /destination
It returned the same error as before.
The second...

I am the root user. The pendrive should be ext4....will check.

I am trying (and learning) to use rsync to back up my files (Everybody says "Back up before you do anything major.") Good advice. I am trying to back up my Home folder to a USB pendrive. I used the...

@ papibe - I shall do as you suggest and start a new thread about this.

I did a -vv (very verbose) Dry Run and got this:

total: matches=0 hash_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0

sent 135.68K bytes received 12.83K bytes 99.00K bytes/sec
total size is 171.68M speedup...

This is how it went"

sent 138.91K bytes received 12.73K bytes 101.10K bytes/sec
total size is 172.13M speedup is 1135.08 (DRY RUN)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see...

Thank you, steeldriver, that's twice you have saved me some time & toil.

Thanks for the heads-up warning.

Thank you lisati I was going to ask y'all to move it to General because I realised it was in the wrong place. You moved it without my asking. Thank you, Ben

I have a file system that I need to remove part of it. I got into it, and there are myriad folders and files. I tried

sudo rmdir -R <foldername>
and evidently the -R has been dropped from rmdir...

Can you tell us what commands you used to get these errors? That may narrow it down.

+1 steeldriver My bad.... I should have looked at the command closer. (I had the right command in mind, just didn't implement it.)

Thanks, all you folks.

You need to use gksudo with gedit.

I ran dpkg to check installed kernels and got this:

ben@MissionControl:~$ dpkg -l grep linux-image
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|...

What kind of video does it have? Enter in Terminal:

lspci | grep VGA
What do you get?

See this thread; It may be relevant....http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2207453&highlight=heat+sink

@ oscar17; Snube (the OP -Original Poster) had the same problem (white screen), and I believe the comments in this thread helped him solve it.

@ wamses2 - Purging and reinstalling seems to have gotten T-Bird back and running. I even still had my folders and saved emails. (This happened to me in Windows several months ago.).

@ xeonix - +...

Thank you xeonix for your help.