Alex Poulos

@jokerdino haha I dont think it couldve gotten any worse - well that's a lie, but luckily there's always livecds around

@jokerdino I will refrain from panicking like that ever again

@jokerdino I understand that now. and thank you for your support. I apologize for my lack of understanding of the matter

I removed the last bit of the code

it was setup like this: /home/alex/alex/

fixed it

ok, nevermind

when it should just be going into /home/

and all the files are going there

but it still created /home/alex/

so no dupes

it created another folder inside my home

hold on

Oh

@jokerdino understood.

@jokerdino im listening

@jokerdino and reporting to launchpad takes forever sometimes

@jokerdino I wasnt meaning to be uncivil I was just upset that the thread closed before I got a decent answer was all

no kidding

hahah

do any of you mind if I log this conversation for further use in the future?

@jokerdino :)

@jokerdino for dealing with my impatience*

@jokerdino thank you as well for my impatience

no dope

@LuisAlvarado it worked

@LuisAlvarado you are a genuis

in which part of the command?

still creates the dupe

nope

I'm going to give it a test run

instead of /alex - by itsself

so maybe thats what I needed

@LuisAlvarado I just added the alex/ because you mentioned it would do a recursive copy of whats in the directory

correct

@LuisAlvarado so then maybe I should go deeper - and copy say rsync --progress -r /media/ALEXPOULOS/backup/alex/ ~ /home/alex

@LuisAlvarado is it because I have it set to -r?

which wasn't good

which being my home contains massive multimedia - a dupe of the exact folder practically threw my drive into a 1.5GB free space

exactly

@LuisAlvarado yes

it not only restores to the Home folder, but creates another Alex folder and contains all the same files

but when I run: rsync --progress -r /media/ALEXPOULOS/backup/alex ~ /home/alex

so all I have is my personal files

I ran rsync to exclude any of the /.* folders

@jokerdino i just need help getting my old home dir to my new home fir

@jokerdino no no, your solution worked fine

@LuisAlvarado no no - i moved my every file from my old Home folder over to my external drive so I could make a new user and set as admin - that way it would get rid of the errors with metacity

so how do I make sure its not going to create this dupe directory and fill up my hard drive space again