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  Date: Dec 14    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 465
  

I seem to have messed up. Can someone advise me please?

I use Ubuntu on a inspiron 1525. Gutsy was installed and I upgraded to
Hardy three weeks ago. Everything worked really well. I am happy using
programmes but as with my car I expect it to start on ignition and
have no idea what happens to make it work.

Last week, on holiday, we paid £5 for use of the wi fi for the week.
Hubby put the codes in for me and then for his laptop. The whole set
up was hit and miss. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it did not. Sadly
his vista laptop worked much better than mine, but then his is higher
spec.

We are back home now and everything works as expected so no problem.

But... when we were away something happened to the documents folder.
My desktop has the usual 3 buttons, Applications, Places, System.
Documents was in places but when ever I clicked on a file to open, the
whole screen greyed out and became static. I had to force quit several
times.

In the end I took the whole documents folder to the waste bin. Started
a documents 2 folder and copied the files I wanted from waste bin to
documents 2. Brilliant everything works except I now have no documents
file in Places and have to go Places, Home folder, Documents 2 to get
to the files. It is not really a problem but it is irritating and may
mess up future updates and make it difficult for software functionality.

So what do I do now? I probably do not have a decent virus check,
firewall etc. It was AVG but that went weird a long time ago.

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4 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Dec 14    

You can just right-click on the Documents icon and choose Make Link. Then just
drag and drop your new link to the desktop. You can right-click on your new link
and rename it, removing the Link to part. This just takes a few seconds. I did
the same for my music folder because I listen to music quite a bit.
As far as editing the menus, you can right-click on the menu and edit the menu.
The problem with that is you can only edit the System and Applications menus. I
don't know why they didn't include the Places menu in the editor.
You could try to rename the Documents 2 folder and call it Documents.

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Dec 14    

I guess I cannot get documents back to
the places drop down menu unless I risk dragging the original
documents folder from waste bin. It was put there because it did not
work and I do not know why, so that does not seem an option. I may
have done something else wrong.

Not wanting to risk the new documents2 folder I created a new folder,
documents and used that to make link. I dragged to desktop per your
recommendation. I have somehow managed to get two link to documents
icons on the main toolbar plus a link to documents icon on my screen
wallpaper. I have renamed as suggested but the folder type remains
link to document.

So the tool bar shows the expected Accessories, Places, System, a
couple of personal items (calculator, sound, battery) and two orange
folder icon link to document.

Places has lost documents but shows everything else ie home folder,
desktop, music, pictures,video, computer, cd, etc

The original documents is in the waste bin, because I do not know why
it greys out and goes static

and home folder now drops down to
documents (newly created so I do not risk losing my files now residing
in documents 2)
documents 2 (the folder I made last week to be able to carry on working)
link to documents (because I clicked make link)
plus the usual examples, music, pictures, video, templates etc

This is a real pain whenever I want to save everything I have to
scroll down the complete list of files to get it into the documents
folder.

Errr to add to my bewilderment I do not know what my new link to
document icon does. Do I delete one or both?

 
Answer #3    Answered On: Dec 14    

Did you try restoring the folder from the trash bin? It may be rebuilt when
you do that. Then your folder documents folder would be back.

 
Answer #4    Answered On: Dec 14    

In case anyone else has the same problem what you do is go into
scribus, set up a document and save it. (that is what I did, I do not
say I understand it!)

Doing it in open systems does not work. When I accidently tried to
save on the first option panel, the screen reminded me it could not
find the folder.

I could not restore from wastebasket because I could not find a
restore button (perhaps its me!)

If you have not got scribus it is free.

 
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