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Thank you - that was what I'd forgotten.

I managed to remove the files successfully, but I'm puzzled as to why they were never deleted when I emptied the rubbish bin. They were quite old, and...

Thank you - that's located the issue. There are still files in .Trash, even though I'd emptied the rubbish bin. I don't know why they weren't deleted, and I don't know how to delete them now; using...

That's an external hard drive used for backups. It has always worked OK, and curiously is not showing signs of filling up, which I would have expected if my home directory were the source of the huge...

Well, that's my problem. I don't know what's filling it. I can't find any obvious culprit and don't know where to look. Running the Disk Usage Analyser is showing me pretty much what I expect to...

Sorry - I finally worked it out and edited my last post, as folk were replying, thus screwing up the order of the thread. My apologies

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
/dev/sdd iso9660 1.9G 1.9G 0 100% /cdrom...

Thanks. I'll look into that further, as I confess I didn't entirely understand it at first read.

However, it doesn't seem to explain why there is such a huge variation in reported disc usage. ...

Using Ubuntu 19.04. Got a message last night saying my 2TB hard drive is full and recommending I empty the rubbish bin to create space. I did that, although I couldn't see how the drive could even...

Well, that's bizarre.

I'd closed down the laptop after numerous failed attempts. I booted up to try your suggestion, and on autopilot typed my password as usual and hey presto! It worked. :) ...

I've just installed Xubuntu 18.04 on an old laptop. The install seems to have gone smoothly, and it boots to the log-in screen, but when I enter my password, it says it's incorrect. I know it...

The HTML/CSS reference in Bluefish is illegible, as it has dark text on a black background. The only way I've found to make it legible is to change Gnome to a dark theme - and then everything else...

Thanks, Bashing-om. I just encountered the same issue and your solution has solved it.

Brilliant, thank you - that's solved it. :)

It's been so long since I needed to format anything, I'd forgotten all about gparted.

I have a new external hard drive which I wanted to reformat to Ext4. I can bring up the format dialogue and choose the correct options, but when I click on "Format" to proceed, nothing happens. ...

Problem solved, thank you.

I realised from the above that the problem was mine, not the Disk Analyser's. I finally tracked the culprit down to a trash folder full of deleted backups in...

Thanks for the reply. Here it is:


du: cannot access `./home/lesley/.gvfs': Permission denied
du: cannot access `./proc/3225/task/3225/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access...

After I did this morning's updates, Disk Space Analyser popped up with a message that my hard drive is almost full. I can't see how that's possible; I have a 1TB hard drive, with not much more on it...

Thanks, Jim. I have a very old dial-up modem which is compatible, but it apparently pre-dates USB, and this machine doesn't have the correct type of connector (whatever that was :redface:).

The...

I need to configure a dial-up connection for my elderly friend's Xubuntu machine, but it's not detecting the on-board modem. Running lshw produces
*-communication UNCLAIMED
...

I'm having a similar problem on an elderly friend's Xubuntu 12.04. I've added her to the dialup group but without success.

AFAIK, there is an on-board modem. (There is no suitable connector for...

Back again.

The same machine has suddenly given up on my USB drives again, for no apparent reason. Same scenario - the drives work on my machine, the light on the drive comes on to indicate it's...

Toz - you are a star! That's finally fixed it. I'm most grateful, as is my friend. (She worked for several years as a nurse in Toronto, and has very fond memories of the place and the people.)

Thanks for your suggestion - didn't get a chance to try it until now.

The good news is - that did get me a new default panel. The bad news is - it still has the same duff log-out button. (By the...

Anyone?

So it does. (I don't have a default.xml - it's also panels.xml.) The problem is that when I log out and back in again, the new file has been miraculously replaced by the old one. I've tried...