SUDO

[Bob]

I do have a lot of hidden files showing,
I do not like thunderbird so have no experience with it.

and when I want to tranfer stuff I usually use an external hard drive or 
thumb drive

guess it falls into different strokes etc.

thanks for explanation

Bob



On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Bill Walsh wrote:

> On 10/10/20 3:40 PM, Bob wrote:
>> 
>> why would one want to open dolphin with SUDO??
>> it is part of the KDE desktop.
>> or am I missing something here
>> or just plain missing something upstairs??
>> 
>> Bob
> When you look in the home directory click on "Show Hidden Files". There will 
> be a whole bunch of grayed out files with dots ( . ) in front of the names.
>
> If you load a new computer, which I did on my desk at the TV station 
> recently, and want to have Thunderbird to have your address book and profile 
> on the new machine like your other ones you can use Dolphin in Admin mode to 
> move the old profile to the new machine before you ever run Thunderbird and 
> everything is there. Once you've started Thunderbird you can't do that. Won't 
> work. Firefox has a "Synch" but so far it hasn't been ported over to 
> Thunderbird yet.
>
> There have been a few times in the past where I wanted to edit something in a 
> "system" file. Instead of using Vi [ SHUDDER UGH! ] start Kate as admin and 
> use that.
>
> As has been pointed out here, it is dangerous to do so. But, so is getting in 
> your car and driving to the store. IF you do something like this do what you 
> have to do and GET OUT. DO NOT do it everyday all day.
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