Re: [orca-list] copying files



Used it many times; doubtless will again. It is friendlier than some man pages.

Al

On 10/4/18 8:19 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
No need to rely on virtual anything. You have a friend in the "man"
command. And, "man" output is even fully accessible.

man cp

will teach you all about cp. It's fundamental knowledge, so I heartily
encourage learning a bit about cp, and especially about man.

TIP: Try using the -a argument to cp to preserve file dates, and
permissions, and such.

Janina

Al Sten-Clanton writes:
I'm virtually certain *.txt works and that I've used it.  Hope I'm write.
(guide dog wags tail in similar hope)

Al

On 10/3/18 1:44 PM, Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:
Glad to hear you figured out list view and I wasn't sure if the *.*
would work. Don't remeber off the top of my head if you can just do sudo
cp *.txt for al text files as a wildcard though in Linux. Need to double
check that one, but I prefer copying in a terminal for one file, GUI for
a whole bunch of files.


On 03/10/18 17:36, Michael Weaver wrote:
Doing *.* didn't work but you were right about entering on the
folder before pasting using the GUI.


On 3 October 2018 4:44:21 pm Jace Kattalakis via orca-list
<orca-list gnome org> wrote:

Hey, if you're not afraid of a terminal, try this, you'l have to do this
for every file unless somebody corrects me if you can do multiple files
this way, but....and again correct me if I'm wrong here but try


sudo cp <document name> /dev/sdx /home/<name>/Documents

Where sdx is the USB stick, usualy sdb, and <name> is your
username....so, f.ex.

sudo cp test.txt /dev/sdb /home/alice/Documents

If I'm wrong in any way....which I probably am, but if I am correct that
and such. It should hopefully work fine though.

Also, for the list view, fairly sure you need to actualy hit enter on a
foldder before pasting into it to tell the system you're in that folder
else it just assumes you're in the directory above it. Example, I select
/home/videos and do the right arrow and paste a video in. On my system
it sends it to the home folder because I told my system I'm in that
folder. I didn't specificaly tel it I'm in the Videos
folder.manager/system/etc you're using but it should in theory work on
most things.




On 03/10/18 15:59, Michael Weaver via orca-list wrote:
I have some documents which I want to copy from a USB stick to my home
folder.

I went to the USB stick, I managed to select the files after changing
the settings in file manager to list view, the standard select all and
copy keys worked.

I went to my home folder, wemt to the documents folder, did a cursor
right and did the CTRL V or pulled down the menu to do the appropriate
commands and.

I went back to my desktop, opened the documents folder and the folder
was empty.

I eventually located the files only they seemed to have been pasted in
the wrong place instead of them being sent to the Documents folder so
i deleted them in case I ended up with duplicate files everywhere.

What am I doing wrong.

I am sure I heard on a Podcast that copying text or something and
pasting it was slightly different in Linux than it is on a mac or in
Windows wso I am wondering if the proceedure for copying files from a
USB Stick to the documents folder in Home is different in Linux maybe
which might explain my files being place in the wrong place.

I only found them by pressing ALT F1 and discovering they were just
added to the list of apps and not my documents folder.

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