easyt50@X220 ~ $ sudo cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf /Public2 easyt50@X220 ~ $ whereis Public2 Public2: easyt50@X220 ~ $ ls Desktop Documents Dropbox Music Public Videos DL Downloads Linux Books Pictures Templates Above is a copy of the terminal session. A …

I need to cancel / remove this question. I found the file on / (root).

Howard @easyt50 , I gotta say, I love your questions. THey seem like, “Hey, I’m lost in the woods. How do I get out? And, by the way, how is a spruce different from a fir tree?” Despite the task at hand, you always step outside and ask a “knowledge bank” type question too.

Cliffsloane, Thanks for your understanding / support. I do feel lost. I know what I want to do, I’m not afraid to try things, I trying to learn fast. There’s the conflict of terminal / command mode vs all the GUI interfaces. I want to leave Windows, but can’t until I feel comfortable with Linux. I …

i can remove this thread if you like, but i think it is a valid question :slight_smile: sometimes terminal commands don’t go the way we think they will.

[image] easyt50: really don’t understand what I did wrong. it was the very last bit of your command /Public2. if. you want that to end up in your home folder it needs to be ~/Public2. it is very easy to miss that initial ~ (tilde) which is a way to represent your home folder without having t…

The system did exactly what you told it to do. You told it to copy 10-evdev.conf to the /Public2 folder. That’s why you found it there. Everything is correct. I think it is always important to remember the welcome message, when you run something the first time as root after you just did a fresh ins…

Howard, although this is slightly off topic. Please don’t feel you can’t ask as many questions as you want. No question is stupid as we all start somewhere and that is really one of the points of our community, it is a place to ask questions and get answers and to learn. We all had to start somewhe…

i couldn’t agree more :slight_smile:

[image] easyt50: Sometimes, I feel like talking a poll here as to what people here use for recovery. @easyt50 there have been a few discussions about backup/recover methods here. i will link some of them for you in case they might be of interest. timeshift (description in the first link belo…

Thanks Cordx, I didn’t know (or forgotten) about the ~ (tilde). So I am glad you left this thread open. I learn something today. I going to copy your note down for future reference.

Thanks Akito for the reminder of the power of root. Being new to Linux, I fully expect to wipe out the root so bad that even Timeshift won’t be able to recover it. That’s the main reason I want to be able to recover root even if the system will not boot. So, until I can recover root w/o using root, …

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