moving folders

Jon Dixon dixon.jon at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 15:22:02 UTC 2005


I just tested it by creating a 2nd user and then doing what I said in
my message.

Worked for me, no problem.

I'm running Hoary, but seeing as this is basic unix stuff I doubt
that'll make a difference.

- Jon

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:09:12 +0000, Norman Silverstone
<norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:59 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> > Are you substituting the name of the folder?
> >
> > foldername is an example.
> 
> Yes, the name of the folder is Floppy Files.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:48:57 +0000, Norman Silverstone
> > <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:27 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> > > > Hi Norman
> > > >
> > > > This should work.
> > > >
> > > > $ sudo mv /home/username1/Desktop/foldername /home/username2/Desktop
> > > >
> > > I tried that and got mv: cannot stat '/home/norman/Desktop/foldername'
> > > What now please?
> > >
> 
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