[PLUG] OK, GUI file managers all suck

Ted Kubaska tkubaska at charter.net
Tue Jun 27 06:58:49 UTC 2006


Yes, those cp examples are just fine. Sometimes I've put everything into a
tarball, moved that to where I wanted and untarred.
 -Ted 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 19:56
To: PLUG
Subject: [PLUG] OK, GUI file managers all suck

[KvetchMode:On]
Having spent the past hour trying to copy my /home/jjj folder from one
location to another, I guess I'm going to have to learn to do file copying
via the command line. I drag the folder to the new location and it copies
some files, but not others. It copies some folders, but not others. And they
all act this way -- XFE, Konqueror, Krusader, Nautilus, and even when I run
them from the terminal as root. You have to go through painstakingly
comparing the two folders to see what didn't get copied, then copy just that
one file. Over and over. During the past year I've tried every GUI file
manager there is, and not one of them will copy all the subfolders and al
the files in those subfolders. No warnings, no explanations as to why. I've
never figured out what the secret is. It's not permissions or ownership
because when I go back and drag the files one at a time they copy just fine.

The task at hand arises because I have a perfectly good and usable Ubuntu
Dapper-64 installation that I created in an unused portion of my hard disk.
I have spent several days getting it all configured.
installing all my apps, getting wifi working, making sure everything was
cool. In the process I copied all the files in /home/jjj from my borked
Breezy installation. The new Dapper installation is ultimately going to be
my emergency rescue installation, since it is set to mount the old Breezy
partition. Having done that, today I reformatted the borked 60 GB Breezy
installation and installed a new, fresh Dapper-64 on it, which will
ultimately be the main installation. Now I need to copy all the configs one
more time. It took me a couple hours the first time, and I'm an hour into it
the second time. 

I tried to learn how to use the cp command. Really, I did. I read the man
page, I googled, and I remain too scared to use it. Too many options that I
didn't understand. So here I sit, dragging files one at a time. And it's too
effin' hot, too. <sigh> [KvetchMode:Off]
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