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a component of a filesystem which contains further items so that the filesystem may be organised

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Change folder permissions and ownership

I would like the user to have full rights on this folder (as well as all sub-directories and files in it): ~/.blabla currently owned by root. I have found numerous posts (in this forum and elsewhere) on how to do this for files but I can't find a…
user2413
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How to delete all the files with a certain extension from a folder and all of its subfolders?

I want to remove all the .jpg files from my Music folder in order to save room. My Music folder contains subfolders, and I would like to know if there is a command to remove all the .jpg files from all these folders regardless of their level. Thanks…
Tigull
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How can I see a folder's exact size in bytes?

I have a folder with 40 GB of dozens of directories and stuff, and I want to see the exact size of the root folder in bytes .. I have tried using this, but it shows the size in kilobytes: du -s foldername
Ahmad
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how do I make nautilus to automatically suggest the folder 'Documents' for pdf files?

In Ubuntu 11.10, how can I set up nautilus so that when I select "Save as..." on Evince or some other PDF viewer, for a PDF I downloaded with the browser, it automatically suggests the folder 'Documents' for saving that pdf file? Right now it just…
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What is the meaning of ~ in ~/somefolder?

I've been told to go to ~/.ssh and, actually, I did cd ~/.ssh and I got into it. However, I'm wondering: what does the ~ mean in this context?
MEM
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How to recursively remove .svn metadata folders?

I have a Java project and it used a SVN repository, now I decide to change to GIT. However the problem is that SVN engine that I used created in every folder of the project the .svn metadata directory. I want to clean all folders of the project of…
EKK
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Photo manager that organises by folder structure

I have my pictures very well organized on the harddisk, in this structure: Pictures Canon Holiday 2010 Sony Graduation 2000 Other Albums Steves Holiday 2010 Album Thus, I have a main folder that holds all my pictures, and within a lot of…
flomar
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Delete empty "lost+found" folder automatically if it's empty

Every certain amount of time, Ubuntu checks my filesystems and it creates several empty "lost+found" folders. Can I disable this feature? Is there any way that Ubuntu deletes automatically these folders if they are empty? Is there any manner to…
Juan Simón
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How do I change the folder icons in the "Places" menu?

How do I change to icons in here?
Switchkick
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Folder tagging?

Is there any program that can tag folders? I have different files within a folder and there are to many folders, if I could tag each folder (contrary to tag each file) then it would be very easy for me to categorise these folders. Does anyone knows…
user12843
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Is it possible to exclude a file or folder from being synced, while it is in a directory that was synced?

I synced a folder called "travel". I want to exclude a file in this folder from being synced. Is this possible? Do the other big syncers, like dropbox and mozy, have this feature?
user10951
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Functions of xdg-user-dirs

What are the functions and capabilities of xdg-user-dirs? In particular, I'm interested to have the folders it creates on a different partition instead of the whole Home.
Oxwivi
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custom icon in "Places" menu

I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, but I know the basics. I read the "How do I change the folder icons in the “Places” menu?" but it didn't help, did the option #2 since I want to specify it for a single directory (for now). So what should I do? I have the…
Gurnarok
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Where is the .wine folder?

In 11.04 the Wine folder was located in /home/"username"/.wine but now that I've done a fresh install of 11.10 and reinstalled Wine, the folder is nowhere to be found. There is a .wine text file in my home folder, but no .wine folder. I installed an…
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Can a folder have 2 or more owners?

Can I set 2 or more owners for one folder? For example: 2 users can read/write, DC group users can read, others can't see How to I achieve the above configuration on that folder?
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