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smellycheeseboy
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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject: I accidentally deleted my home directory |
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Hi, I'm an idiot.
Well that out of the way, I have this annoying habit of hitting enter before I read the window and I was trying to exit out of the open office setup so that I could get a java env to run with it and it asked me if I wanted to delete the directory /home/mrx (mrx is my user) because I forgot to make the install directory /home/mrx/OpenOffice.
Anyway I'm still an idiot but is there any way to back up and save it.
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LinuxTechnologies
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| You are indeed an idiot - no chance of recovering it now. I guess you learned the hard way. |
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smellycheeseboy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Damn me and my impatience.
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NiklasH
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relyt
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: I accidentally deleted my home directory |
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| smellycheeseboy wrote: | | Well that out of the way, I have this annoying habit of hitting enter before I read the window and I was trying to exit out of the open office setup so that I could get a java env to run with it and it asked me if I wanted to delete the directory /home/mrx (mrx is my user) because I forgot to make the install directory /home/mrx/OpenOffice. |
I thought that running the OO setup was totaly unneccesary anyway..... It can run right where it emerge'd to. |
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smellycheeseboy
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I was under the impression that the open office ebuild didn't work because the last few times I've tried it it hasn't worked and I've read a number of things on the forums saying the same thing.
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secondshadow
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| The only times I remember the OO ebuild not working were entirely due to my CFLAGS being too agressive. |
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taskara
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:54 am Post subject: |
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OUCH...
I guess the lesson here is "if linux prompts you for something, PAY ATTENTION! This is not windows!! are you sure? really sure? sure you're sure?"
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justineiler
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:36 am Post subject: |
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WOW THATS STUPID!!!!
I could never even see myself doing such a STUPID thing like that. Well except when i deleted my whole root drive... DAMN rm -fdr!!!!
but at least im not the one with the /usr/src/linux symlink problem.... |
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