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Well it turned out all I needed to do was choose a directory to restore to, instead of taking the default "restore to original locations" option.

Hello and thanks for reading. In my old installation of 18.04 I split my files between two partitions; most subdirectories (Desktop, Downloads, etc.) were in the partition housing my Home directory,...

Solved! ...well not really.

Thank you both for helping me through this! I don't really know why it worked, but here's what I did:
First, as I reported above, after booting the DVD in 'try...

I spent some time dealing with grub rescue. Watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTGpvZO8Oc, at 4:16 he enters: 'insmod normal'. This fails for me: grub appears to be not finding the file...

Thank you Bashing-om, for your help (and patience!)

I did do a fresh install, wiping all files and reformatting the disk, which is how I ended up with this: (Oh and I did verify the dvd, it...

OK, before continuing, I followed your 'popularpages' link and screwed things up further. Now, on a 2nd attempt, I get this... which is progress of a sort :-)...

dpkg: error processing...

Thank you!

I'm seeing 3 partitions: Linux swap, Linux filesystem, and the first (/dev/sda1) is EFI. Thing is, I don't know what that means.

Due to user error I had to reinstall 18.04. All went well, taking default choices, on my amd64 Thinkcentre, until the reboot after completion. I did choose to reformat the disk, wiping all files. ...

The Ubuntu Software app's window frame and background disappears (is transparent) when settings->appearance->window colors is set to either 'light' or 'dark'. The app is only usable when set to...

Multiple dvd's, including a brand-new blank, and movies that play well on my TV... but no joy on the Lenovo desktop (18.04):

>> su ...
#regionset /dev/dvd
regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets...

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick.

Ubuntu 18.04.2...

Deja-dup fails during verification, complaining that there is not enough "Temp space" available. Is this a configurable parameter?

Having trouble configuring macslow's cairo-clock on startup. If started from the startup folder, I get this (image borrowed from another user [thanks!]):

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I attempted to fix this by...

Running 16.04 on a 64 bit box, printing worked fine until today. Today, I installed gimp & xsane using the 'ubuntu software' utility and practiced scanning a document & exporting it as a pdf. All...

Background: Dell Latitude 830, 2 gig, 14.10... decided to (finally!) upgrade to 15.04. Upgrade seemed to go fine, but boot failed. Searched the 'net, found two posts from last June exactly...

Hello and thanks in advance!

As the subject says, I cannot mount an encrypted USB device following the upgrade to 14.04. When inserted, the password dialog is presented but then the mount fails....

Well, lightdm appears to be the culprit. (Booting with the WiFi transciever swiched off did nothing.)

Background: I have a cleanup script that I usually run when logging out. It makes heavy use...

Yes, I apologize for not knowing the correct terms. What I'm seeing is this: the boot appears to go normally right up to the point that the login box appears, but then begins a very long wait (up...

I used the upgrade utility to bring my Dell laptop from 13.04 to 13.10, and the upgrade completed without a hitch.

But now when I boot (and booting to the login screen is right quick, thanks!),...

Box is a Dell Latitude 830, and it ran 13.04 just fine. The upgrade appeared to proceed smoothly, but now I stick at the point where my desktop background is painted but the login box is greyed-out....

Running 13.04 and Nvidia graphics. I allowed an automatic update to occur today (4/19) and upon reboot, the system became unusable.

During boot, an Nvidia splash screen appears briefly (this is...