On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 19:08 +0000, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:49:27 -0000, Peter & Jill Harris > <peter_harri...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > The command I put in was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples > > I'm really hoping that is a joke or a typo > > what you have done there is > rm -rf ~/ > rm -rf .shotwell/Examples > > I think what you wanted to do was rm -rf ~/.shotwell/Examples > > If you did the former - then I hope your backup of ~ is recent ;) >
Thanks for responses. I'm sure it was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples. I restored /etc, /home and /usr/local in that order using Simple Backup, the backups were on a separate hard disk. Thanks for offer to assist if I lived in the Poole area John but I live in Swanage. If all else fails I have copies of most of my folders on a separate hard disc but they are not up to date and I would lose all the cataloguing from about 500 photos. Cheers, Peter Harris -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
