how to find iso image after download

[salima]

after creating the dvd i vaguely remember seeing the iso file listed twice...i deleted one. now i cant find the iso image anywhere and i want to make a usb stick from it. when i bring up brasero it still shows two items for that file with the same name but if i click on either of them i get the same error that the file is gone.

the file is not in the trash.

is it really gone?

[LowSky]

Is anything ever really gone?
try this command from a terminal

find / -name *.iso

[salima]

Is anything ever really gone?
try this command from a terminal

find / -name *.iso

i am pretty sure of the original name of the file, so this is what i typed:
Find / -10.04-desktop-i386*.iso
and got 'command not found'
then i retyped without the capital 'F' and got 'unknown predicate'


i typed this beginning from the $ prompt, is that correct?


sorry, i am very new at this. i need 'instructions for dummies'...

[L Campbell]

after creating the dvd i vaguely remember seeing the iso file listed twice...i deleted one. now i cant find the iso image anywhere and i want to make a usb stick from it. when i bring up brasero it still shows two items for that file with the same name but if i click on either of them i get the same error that the file is gone.

the file is not in the trash.

is it really gone?

I'm not trying to be a wise guy here but did you look in 'Download'?

I wasted some time once, looking for something I had downloaded until I happened to look in Download.

[silverglade00]

You need to type that command exactly without changing anything. Copy and paste it into the Terminal.

[anaconda]

i am pretty sure of the original name of the file, so this is what i typed:
Find / -10.04-desktop-i386*.iso
and got 'command not found'
then i retyped without the capital 'F' and got 'unknown predicate'


i typed this beginning from the $ prompt, is that correct?


sorry, i am very new at this. i need 'instructions for dummies'...

You entered a wrong command. it should have been something like:
find / -name 10.04-desktop-i386.iso

so no star if you know the filename

[salima]

thanks for the answers everyone-
actually i did look in download, the download helper file, and the brasero files but no luck.

if i enter either of those commands above now i am getting 'permission denied' and various gibberish.

should i be doing this from root?

[ks07]

You can run the find command as root so that the command can search in folders where you don't normally have read access. However, I highly doubt you would have downloaded the .iso to one of these system folders. No harm in trying though!

sudo find / -name *.iso

[fancypiper]

There is also the locate command which can find a file anywhere on the computer:

locate *.iso

AFAIK, all bash commands are in lower case unless they are aliased to a command with capital letters.

[salima]

thanks anyway, but i think it is really gone. none of this works for me.

i will have to go about it another way.