On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press > CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full > stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Cheers, Al.
Too true, upwards of seventy folders. Many of them are associated with user applications, but some are gnome files. On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:45:15 +0100, Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few years ago and complained > his (Windows) PC wouldn't boot. What were you doing when you last used > it? "Just deleting some files I never use" Like what? "command.com, > something like that" You may have a problem there ... :) Dianne Well, I've never been that bad. But I should have recalled that in fact there is a similar distribution of hidden files in the user space in windows too. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/