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Recovery From External HD in Ubuntu 14.04
I backed up my files on my ubuntu 12.04 machine before my mobo fried. I have another machine running 14.04 & I can mount the HD from the old machine as an external drive However, I can't see or copy contacts in kaddress book. The seperate files in their folders were saved & copied but how do I recover my address book?
sutireme
Probably the external drive is seen, but the partitions on it are not mounted.
Please post the output of the following commands in a terminal window (copy and paste it into a reply here and put it within [code]tags[/code]. It would help us help you.
Code:sudo lsblk -fmCode:df
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Code:dennis@dennis-GA-MA78GM-US2H:~$ lsblk -fm NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT NAME SIZE OWNER GROUP MODE sda sda 232.9G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sda1 / ├─sda1 227.4G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sda2 ├─sda2 1K root disk brw-rw---- └─sda5 [SWAP] └─sda5 5.5G root disk brw-rw---- sdb sdb 74.5G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sdb1 ├─sdb1 100M root disk brw-rw---- └─sdb2 └─sdb2 74.4G root disk brw-rw---- sdc sdc 232.9G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sdc1 ├─sdc1 2G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sdc2 ├─sdc2 20G root disk brw-rw---- └─sdc3 └─sdc3 210.9G root disk brw-rw---- sdi sdi 149.1G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sdi1 /media/dennis/fcc80ba2- ├─sdi1 143.5G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sdi2 ├─sdi2 1K root disk brw-rw---- └─sdi5 └─sdi5 5.6G root disk brw-rw---- sr0 sr0 1024M root cdrom brw-rw---- dennis@dennis-GA-MA78GM-US2H:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 234557280 11534620 211084716 6% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 2832568 4 2832564 1% /dev tmpfs 568436 1372 567064 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 2842176 156 2842020 1% /run/shm none 102400 48 102352 1% /run/user /dev/sdi1 147948700 20920016 119490268 15% /media/dennis/fcc80ba2-4b18-40ed-b0a1-f11b917adfb2 dennis@dennis-GA-MA78GM-US2H:~$
Last edited by sudodus; September 21st, 2015 at 07:08 PM. Reason: code tags
sutireme
You forgot sudo, which cripples the output. Please post the output ofOriginally Posted by dshock
Code:sudo lsblk -fmDo you have any idea in which drive (and partition) to find the contacts in your kaddress book? The first step is to mount that partition. Now the only mounted partition is
Code:dennis@dennis-GA-MA78GM-US2H:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 234557280 11534620 211084716 6% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 2832568 4 2832564 1% /dev tmpfs 568436 1372 567064 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 2842176 156 2842020 1% /run/shm none 102400 48 102352 1% /run/user /dev/sdi1 147948700 20920016 119490268 15% /media/dennis/fcc80ba2-4b18-40ed-b0a1-f11b917adfb2 dennis@dennis-GA-MA78GM-US2H:~$
The next step is to identify the file where it is stored. Since the name is kaddress, I'm thinking of KDE. Are you running Kubuntu or standard Ubuntu? What application program does the address book belong to?Code:/dev/sdi1 147948700 20920016 119490268 15% /media/dennis/fcc80ba2-4b18-40ed-b0a1-f11b917adfb2
I don't know the solution to this second step, and I hope someone else can chip in and help you
Last edited by sudodus; September 21st, 2015 at 07:24 PM.
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This IS the output of the sudo command. The HD is sdi and the partition is probably sdi1. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with some KDE apps.
sutireme
OK
Try to find out about kaddress - where it stores its data. A guess is a file name with 'kaddress' as part of the name somewhere in your home directory under .config or .kde. I hope someone who is using Kubuntu or at least KDE can chip in and help you.
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