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[Malaika Sharp]

Thank you so much. I will try this tomorrow (Monday), when I am a bit
fresher.

Have a wonderful week. I'll keep you posted.

Oh, you mentioned that you had a couple of problems when you upgraded.
If you are willing to share, what were the problems?

Malaika


On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:22 +0100, Lesley King wrote:
> Hi Malaika!
> 
> The following suggestion is from my techie husband!
> 
> On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 09:41 -0400, Malaika Sharp wrote:
> > Greetings to everyone,
> > 
> > Have a quick question. I received a notice indicating that the latest
> > version of Ubuntu was available for download. The last time that I
> > upgraded, I had problems with the permissions. I could not save, modify,
> > create folders, etc. after. It took several minutes (a couple of
> > frustrating hours) to realize that it was a permissions issue and to
> > relate it back to the upgrade that I had just completed.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if there is anyway to ensure that I don't have that
> > same problem if I choose to upgrade to this latest version?
> > 
> 
> In a terminal:
> 
> ls -alR | awk '{ print $1 " " $8  }' > ~/file_permissions_before.txt
> 
> then do the upgrade, and again in a terminal do:
> 
> ls -alR | awk '{ print $1 " " $8  }' > ~/file_permissions_after.txt
> sudo apt-get install meld
> meld ~/file_permissions_before.txt ~/file_permissions_after.txt
> 
> meld is a tool that will show the differences of the file permissions
> (in the 1st column) for the files named in the 2nd column.
> 
> I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy Heron with few problems.  Good luck!
> 
> Lesley
> 
> 
> > Side note: I have been successful in getting two friends to download and
> > try ubuntu. Yeah for opensource software!
> > 
> > Malaika
> > 
> > 
> 
>