difficulty accessing and finding files in edgy

[Evan]

You can also "sudo nautilus &". Once in Nautilus press "Control+H" to
see the hidden files. You can click to the directory you want and
CAREFULLY copy the config file you need to your USB stick.

On 2/6/07, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/02/07, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am having a bit of a problem accessing or finding files in Edgy and
> > don't know why some file names show up in Gnome yet some only seem to
> > show up in terminal and trying to copy files from terminal refuses to
> > work when I need to copy them to my USB stick.
> > For example I am having difficulty in setting up Espeak and someone
> > asked me if I can copy these config files to him for sorting them out in
> > case uncommenting or commenting out lines hasn't worked for example one
> > file he needs is speechd.conf which is found under something like
> > /etc/speech-dispacher and there was something like one which was
> > something to do with espeak.con.
> > I tried to look on the desktop for my files knowing the files I wanted
> > to find but they are not showing up and using the search for files seems
> > to give me no results which is a pain because when I entered the
> > terminal, went to my home directory and did ls, sure enough was the etc
> > directory which I changed to, I then entered speech-dispacher directory
> > and there was at least one of the files I was asked to send.
> > However I can't seem to be able to copy these important config files to
> > my USB Stick from the terminal for some reason.
> > Why am I having this trouble?
> > I have tried going into properties and looking at permisions tab to find
> > out whether these files are restricted despite me being the only user
> > and not a thing could I find which was blocking access to these files
> > from the Gnome access which I know does allow me to copy files to my USB
> > stick.
> >
>
> Firstly, please a few full stops here and there - I had to read your
> question 3 or 4 times to work out what the issue was!
>
> Secondly, are ARE using a leading slash at the start of pathnames aren't
> you? If you look at the directory structure and layout, you'll see that the
> etc directory hangs directly off the root of the filesystem and thus it is
> referenced as "/etc". Your home directory is further down the filesystem and
> so unless you tell your find command to start at "/" it will never find
> "/etc" and the files therein.
>
> Excuse me if you know all of this, but there is no reason why you can't copy
> these files out of /etc to your removable media, providing you're specifying
> the path to the files correctly.
>
> --
> Steve
> Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...
>