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gary wrote:
> Will Kemp wrote:
>> gary wrote:
>>
>>> it does say something about the root password and a disk error (fail)
>> If it asks for the root password that's a good sign - it means the hard 
>> drive isn't completely dead. With a bit of luck, following Zebee's 
>> instructions and running fsck will fix it.
>>
>> How did it get like that in the first place though? What happened 
>> immediately before you had that problem? Back in the bad old days i used 
>> to see that sort of thing a fair bit if the computer was powered off 
>> while it was running, rather than being shut down properly - but, thanks 
>> to the ext3 file system, i haven't seen it for years. Ext3 seems to 
>> manage to fix that stuff on its own (touch wood!).
>>
>>> so should i hit delete to get the bios thing up and go from there or 
>>> should i try to save my stuff onto a cd  while using the live cd then 
>>> re install Ubuntu?
>> Definitely use the live CD to save your files if you can. If you can do 
>> that, then the hard drive is probably fixable, so fsck should sort out 
>> the problem, with a bit of luck.
>>
>>> If so how would i get my email addresses etc from evolution mail?
>> Evolution keeps its mail folders and configuration files in a directory 
>> called .evolution in your home directory. Note the dot at the beginning 
>> of the file name - it's important. The dot also means that file probably 
>> won't show up in the file browser window (i.e., when you open your home 
>> directory). But there should be an option to "Show hidden files" in the 
>> "View" menu at the top of the file browser window. That will show you a 
>> whole load of files and directories with names starting with a dot.
>>
>> Copy .evolution onto a CD or whatever. An external hard drive is a good 
>> idea for this, although they're normally formatted for windows and 
>> you'll have trouble with some of the file names in the .evolution 
>> directory. You may have trouble with that with a CD too. Give it a try 
>> and, if there's any error messages, post them here. I could tell you how 
>> to avoid them, but you may not need to - and if you don't need to, you 
>> don't want to know that at this stage!
>>
>> Even better than just copying .evolution, copy everything in your home 
>> directory.
>>
> thanks Will i think i am going to be busy i have no idea why it played 
> up it just did? maybe dust as bob said will try that as well not really 
> sure what home directory is but i think it is places computer or places 
> home folder will try these anyway thanks for all your help again

"Folder" and "directory" mean the same thing. "Folder" is more commonly 
used by Windows users and "directory" is more commonly used by Linux 
users. But "folder" seems to be used in Linux a lot more nowadays.

Yeah, it's what you see when you go to "Places"-->"Home Folder". You're 
obviously using the "Gnome" desktop (there are two common ones for Linux 
these days), so that means that When you go to "Places"-->"Home Folder", 
  you need to click on the "View" option at the top of that window, then 
click on "Show Hidden Files". Then you'll be able to find the .evolution 
folder.

However, if you want to back up (save a copy of) everything in your home 
folder to a CD, look at the top (title) bar of the home folder window - 
it should have whatever user name you log in as in it. That's the name 
of that folder. Click on the "Up" button and then you should see only a 
couple of folders probably. One will be your home folder. If you put a 
blank CD in the CD burner and a blank CD icon pops up on the desktop, 
you should be able to drag your home folder onto that blank CD icon to 
burn the whole lot to the CD. Of course, if there's more data in your 
home folder than will fit on a CD, that won't work.



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