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Huckleberry wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:38 am Jerry, will you also put them on web page's Faq ? (would be nice ) :)

Waiting for it.

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No prob, it just threw me off the track. I was thinking you had bigger issues than you do, maybe a full root partition.

After running as your user2 for a few days, if you don't have any more problems and you're sure you have everything you need data-wise from the user1 home directory you can go ...

Log in as root. Open Thunar and navigate to /home/user1 then select the directories you wish to copy such as Documents, Music, Videos, etc. and choose Copy.

Ordinarily, no need to log in as root. Consistent with default user file permissions, user2 can usually copy user1's data by just ...

You said it was empty, meaning that there were no Documents, Desktop, Downloads, etc. directories. I was just going by the information I was given. (Why would you expect your own personal data files to be in another user's home directory?)


I'm sorry Jay it's me, we cool right? :happy: :happy:
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so, How about copy files between different users?

Thank's figueroa for the help

He did not mean EMPTY. He meant that it didn't have his user1 files in user2. If it was really empty, the XFCE desktop would not load.

it is true what he said Jay

All right, this is probably my fault.

user2’s Home directory stay empty like nothing.
what I mean by that is my user2' Home directory stay have a standard folder like "first install" But my current files and document isn't there.

I can still access ALL my files when I log in as user1 and using ...

Copy the files you want, but not the hidden files (those that begin with a .) from user1 to user2. When you are happy with the results, then you are done. Or, if you are really happy, then you can remove user1.


Okay, How do I copy my file? is it possible to use cp or mv command?
I'm ok if I have ...