Maybe duplicate.

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@EliahKagan OK :) voted

@EliahKagan agreed...

@EliahKagan hah yeah :) sometimes I think we should remove the accepted clause from the query, because people accept bad answers sometimes. But we can't fix all the questions. Anyway I was able to expand that post a little... hopefully it's more useful now

query returns 3862 :/

any thoughts on what should be done with this question?

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@Zanna Keep it open unless it turns out to be a duplicate of something? I see nothing unclear, off-topic, or otherwise wrong with that question. Some of the comments seem like they might be half-answers, anyway.

This question isn't primarily opinion-based, but I think it is too broad.

@Zanna I've commented. By the time you see that comment, if no answer has been posted (and the question is still open and the OP hasn't deleted it), please feel free to ping me to remind me to post a CW answer, if you don't just want to do so yourself. I'll check back eventually, though, so you need not ping, just feel free to do so.

NAA

This question seems on-topic -- I use both Ubuntu and Windows (and other OSes), and if I needed to recover data that was on an ext4 partition, I would use Ubuntu to do it. But I am hoping it's a duplicate of something. Is it?

What should happen with this question? Due to the feature freeze, there is not actually any question about which packages will exist in Ubuntu 17.10, and our actual policy about Ubuntu+1 questions recognizes that sort of thing.

That addresses the main reason people want to close the question, but I wonder if there are other reasons to close it. The OP hasn't specified what kind of development they are doing ("desktop applications" is broad), and there are numerous APIs for writing GUI apps that run in Ubuntu.

Similarly, I see no reason to close this question, though at least it is about a "problem" with a beta release so the close reason seems like it fits even though it is conflict with actual community consensus. (Actually that one is easier -- I see nothing wrong with it besides being about the UI of a release that is about to come out.)

I don't agree with closing this question. Even if we close most old Ubuntu One questions (which I think is questionable, when there are meaningful answers), this one seems to be of historical interest. It is at worst a duplicate, and I'm not convinced of that.

This question has an accepted, upvoted answer. But is the answer correct?

@EliahKagan I would say the difference between the structures in the title is that one is correct, but overquoted, and the second one is wrong and won't work haha. The answer doesn't seem very sure of itself

The claim that {} ever has to be quoted is what I am doubting.

is there any shell that will interpret it in some unwanted way?

it's not a good answer for Ubuntu where most users will be using bash as their main shell

Well scripts often run with dash.

It seems to me that the answer is fine so long as the claim it makes is correct, because it goes to the question of why some people quote {}. But if no shell requires {} to be quoted, then this claim isn't true:

> Your shell may assign the sequence {} a special meaning (depending on the type of shell and even if you are inside a shell script or not).

The part about \; is true. At least all Bourne-style shells treat ; specially.

Aha!(ish)

fish expands an empty {} to the empty string.

:)

I don't know whether to approve this edit. It certainly makes the code hurt my eyes a lot less, but since it's in the question maybe it should be left as is... not sure

@Zanna It was approved before I looked at it. I think I would have approved it. The edit doesn't change what sequence of tokens are lexed out, and it makes the code easier possible to understand.

:) thanks

I'm writing an answer to this meta question and I remembered that the UI has, or used to have, a way to edit just tags (i.e., without showing an editable textarea for the post body), for editors between some amount of rep and some other amount of rep. Is that still the case?

that's a 10k privilege

unless I'm confused about what you mean

it's at the bottom of this page

I think there used to be a separate "edit tags" privilege

or it was possible to carry out OR suggest tag-only edits before it became possible for anyone to suggest an edit to any post

@Zanna Yeah, I'm talking about changing what tags there are on a post.

What 10k privilege do you mean? Oh, hey, you're right. So... why don't I see that? Is it outdated?

um no... I use it regularly

hover to the right of the tags...

and a little "edit tags" button should appear magically

Oh.

here's the other thing I was talking about (although it's not very clear and I think you can disregard this since I think you are actually talking about the non-obsolete 10k inline tag edit privilege)

did it work?

Ah.

Well I have that link, yes.

I just either forgot all about it or never noticed it at all.

Since you use that frequently, it seems to me that you might want to post an answer to What to do with tag-only edits?

I don't know why the link is hidden! why can't they make it appear like the close protect delete links when you have that privilege...

@EliahKagan sure, but did you want to answer it? goes all British

British?

Also, I did answer it.

oh you did :)

British "no no, after you"

But since I only infrequently edit only tags, I think there's certainly room for another answer, even if you happen to agree with everything I said in my answer, which I have no reason to think you necessarily do.

I added an answer and edited the suggested edit link into the question... which might have been the wrong thing to do... but ravery seemed to want to find it

I wouldn't worry. Now more specific answers can be posted. It edit can always be rolled back if necessary, though I doubt it will be.

:)

I added a note to my answer so it still makes sense to people who are reading it after looking at the edit suggestion.

sorry

?

That was part of my explanation for why your edit was not harmful in any way.

yes but my edit created the need for the note

but it is all ok :)

Dupe?

Is this a dupe of that, which has answers with methods other than testdisk?

Should this answer be converted to a comment?

@EliahKagan I think so

I've VTC'd and also commented just in case.

@EliahKagan I guess this meta question applies...

@EliahKagan thanks :)

@Zanna kind of inconclusive though XD

Although this was definitely NAA, I really do not agree with the red flag (rude/abusive or spam) that was cast on it. What the crap?

@EliahKagan yeah that's not right

I think this post may be outdated and I wouldn't prioritize it over more recent or more official sources, but I still think it is true that, "A post that is attacking your favorite software or opinion is not necessarily rude or offensive."

agreed

One problem with flagging things that aren't truly and seriously unwelcome in our community with red flags is that, if it happens enough, 10k users will always feel like they have to click through to view the revision history on red-flagged posts before using their powers anywhere on a page (as well as just in general, in order to counteract misuses of the system).

Which would make things like a worse and way more cumbersome version of the way they were before red-flagged posts' bodies were hidden.

Way more cumbersome.

@Zanna Well I'm not sure it necessarily is that bug.

@EliahKagan maybe this?

I'm not sure though... do they just have to --add-architecture?

@EliahKagan yeah... is there anything we can do about this? Do you suggest flagging the post?

@Zanna Well, is this an emerging pattern?

Having (rightly) deleted the post, Seth would likely have seen the red flag on it, so it's probably unnecessary to notify moderators of that individual post.

But if it starts happening more than it seems to have in the past -- especially if, as was the case in this post, there's no real defensible explanation for why someone who understands what the flags are for would have used a red flag -- then mod attention should probably be called to it.

and we can retract flags now thankfully, so misclicks can be fixed

I am going to go to bed now. I will try to read your earlier messages tomorrow. Low on energy

How do I flag correctly? was recently featured (by Thomas Ward), so maybe that's in response to such misuses of flags. Or maybe it's just a gradual accumulation of poor flagging, perhaps including my own somewhat questionable use of VLQ.

@Zanna Will you get annoying notifications -- like your phone making noises -- if I reply to your messages? If not, I'll reply to several of them.

@Zanna Yeah, looks good. I've voted to close.

Good night!

It seems to me that Cannot install ia32-libs can also be considered a duplicate of What happened to the ia32-libs package?

Why is this closed?

no idea but i just voted to reopen

Thanks.

Is this question a duplicate of something? If not, you might want to post an answer (I saw your comment there). @edwinksl

looks like there is a dupe