lost desktop

**EgoGratis** · March 7th, 2013

Originally Posted by boyrobson

nope i'm afraid not.

don't suppose somebody will be able to link me to a video to make a bootable usb drive using a mac?

Here you go:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ho...%20USB%20Stick

UNetbootin for GUI method or dd in the command line but be careful if u will use dd to not overwrite accidentally something else and not your USB drive.

**sandyd** · March 7th, 2013

threads merged

**boyrobson** · March 8th, 2013

I want to do a fresh instal however i only have a mac to do this on. All the youtube videos seem rather vague and ambiguous. It does explain on the ubuntu website however it always loses me. If anybody could break that down for me to make it simpler? Would be extremely grateful as I am stuck with no laptop

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/...ick-on-mac-osx here's the link to Ubuntu's official guide.

**boyrobson** · March 8th, 2013

right. New problem. I have a live usb all up and ready. However i want to rescue my files from my old file system before i do a fresh installation of ubuntu. How can i do this as it says i do not have root permissions. I have tried 'gksu nautilus' and this has not been successful. Can anybody shed some light on this situation? Thanks.

**black veils** · March 8th, 2013

is your home encrypted? if yes, do this:

Code:

sudo ecryptfs-recover-private

The command will offer to recover an encrypted directory if it locates one.

Assuming the command found a wrapped passphrase file on your system, it will prompt you for your login passphrase. If it doesn’t find this file, you’ll need the mount passphrase – hopefully you have a copy of this. If you don’t, you can’t recover your files.

The passphrase will mount the encrypted directory in your /tmp directory. use

Code: