Copy everything bar one folder

[Cybe R. Wizard]

SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>  said:
> I want to copy everything bar one very large folder from my current 
> /home partition to another smaller partition and make this new
> partition /home.
> 
> The only real problem I'm having is finding out how to copy all the 
> files bar one. I could copy a few at a time I suppose but that seems 
> rather long winded.
> 
> Trawling round the web hasn't produced any answers.  Any body got any
> ideas
> 
> SteVe
> 
Using Nautilus?  Highlight everything (<Ctrl-a> then, holding the <Ctrl>
key, choose your very large folder.  It should then un-highlight.  Copy
away!

Cybe R. Wizard 
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