<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all, this old man is slowly getting into the swing of the world of Ubuntu: all too slowly. Yesterday I (once more) tried to purge my vbox to reload and start over, but I entered sudo apt-get purge virtualbox 4.2 and was left with a crippled machine. Fortunately I was able to install a new Ubuntu in parallel and can now access all the documents that I thought I had lost via my home folder on a partition, but what went wrong? (I do have a backup but it does not include my doings over the last 10 days or so) Meanwhile I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that vbox, wine and all those tricks are just bad news - all of them bite you sooner or later, so now I am going to revert to Win xp on my wife's machine where I will do all the stuff that do not work on Ubuntu. Best wishes, Jan </body> </html>