Re: Help, please

[Guus Bonnema <gbonnema xs4all nl>]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:15:35 -0700
"Richard L. Dery" <dickdery centurylink net> wrote:

> I'm currently using Midnight Commander to recover files from a Lubuntu 
> Linux users $HOME directory. I'm seeing a symbol I don't recognize.
>
> The home directory is presented as
>
> ?home
>
> in pink text.

Hey Dick, try listing the directory with ls or ls -l. That should show what is
going on with your directory. 

You do need appropriate authorization so you might want to log in to root to
do it.

Guus.