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Where can I select the iinet mirror in Australia for my Ubuntu installation?

iinet offers a off quota access to linux images and also an mirror.

Going through the server list on my Ubuntu 14.04 installation does not list any iinet mirrors.

Note: When searching for iinet mirror I found a Launchpad site listing iinet.

Note 2: I'm also unsure if the internote mirror is a combined mirror and quota free for iinet users.

I've read good things about Backblaze but unfortunately they don't seem to support Linux/Ubuntu.

Is not supporting Linux by Backblaze maybe not providing a nice GUI and it is still possible to use it for backup?

I have enabled 'Watch library directory for new files' and imported many photos with the settings <Lib>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<..>.

I have since decided to move to <Lib>/<year>/<month>/<..> and would now like to clean up the old folders.

Can I simply move the files into the month folder and Shotwell will pick it up and fix it?

I've noticed that Shotwell has imported many images twice (e.g. from my camera SD card). Apparently the duplicate detection is buggy once a photo is imported, tagged and then re-imported.

I have "write meta data tags" enabled in the settings. If I import a photo test-images.jpg and add tags to it the photo will not be picked up by the duplicate detection upon another import of the same file. The second time the file is imported it will be named test-images-1.jpg and placed in the library folder as per the active rules (not necessarily into the same folder).

test-images.jpg and test-images-1.jpg will have the same image data but due to the added tag/metadata the files are not the same anymore and won't be picked up by searching for duplicates (e.g. md5 hash).

My usage scenario that caused multiple duplicate is as follows:

1. I take pictures with my phone
2. I import the photos from my phone, add tags but leave the images on the phone as I want to keep them for sharing etc.
3. I add further tags to the imported photos
4. After some weeks I repeat the import step from the phone and old photos that I have already imported will be imported again (with '-1.jpg' or '-2.jpg' added)

How to clean up the duplicates? Using a file name based search would be possible but I can't exclude that I have not imported a file ending with -1 to which was not imported as a duplicate.

How can I clean up my photo library? I tried to use the search function in Shotwell but with more than 1000 photos there must be a better, more reliable, less error prone an simpler way.

I'm not to worried about tags getting lost, typically the second import (the duplicate) has no tags applied.

while reading the man page of duplicity I found some minor spelling mistakes.

What is the easiest way to fix them, or have them fixed.

PS: I'm not a programmer

I am on Ubuntu 12.10 with one user using encrypted home.

A while back I have changed by user password and then forgot it.

I then made a backup of my files using Dustin's help to an external drive. I was about to delete my system and do a fresh install when I realized that there is a recovery option in which I can reset my user password. Using How do I reset a lost administrative password? I have set a new password for my user.

After rebooting I can log-in in Unity using my new password but I am thrown back to the Unity screen immediately. (No message about false password)

Using the terminal I can log in using the new user-password.

How can I re-enable my machine to decrypt my ecrypfs encrypted home with the unwrapped passphrase I know?

I'm running 12.04 and I've installed skype via the software centre.

As with 11.10 everything works fine with 12.04 as well.

There is only one thing that does not work. I can't see myself in Skype video calls. The video call works fine, I can see the other side the other side can see me. Buid in microphone works.

If I click on 'show myself' during the video call nothing happens. I know that it works on Ubuntu in general as I had it working a while back on a different machine (Xubuntu 11.04). Could that be related to the GPU? I'm now on a intel/nvidia one.

Any Ideas where I can hunt for some options or tweaking?

I've moved my home folder from an old to a new computer using this HowTo. The old machine was running Xubuntu 11.10 the new is running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.

On both machines the users where created with encrypted home folder turned on.

Besides other oddities I have now 31 folders and 25 files in my home directory which start with

ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED. ...

• Why are these files there?
• What are they for?
• How can I get rid, switch off, hide them .... basically get back to where it was before?

Hi I have a new notebook and I want to move my home data to the new computer.

I think there are multiple ways of doing this

• copy all to a external hdd and move back on new computer
• do an Deja-Dup backup and then restore on the new computer
• rsyc/move to new computer via sshfs
• ...?

My question is how do I keep the current ecrypt encryption of /home in place and get it working properly on the new computer. How do I have to install the new computer so I can use the encrypted home files from the old?

If I would use Deja-Dup do I need to worry about the ecrypt stuff on the old machine or does the new installation simply enctypt everything new?

I use Xubuntu. Recently I removed all Ubuntu/Unity related packages in the hope to have a more responsive and less cluttered system.

Before I removed Ubuntu/Unity packages following using this command.

After the removing of the packages the program thats starts when selecting 'Sound Settings...' is a different one than it was before when Unity was installed.

As I have a bluetooth speaker I connect to I would like to have the 'old' sound settings program back. The latter enabled me to select the bluetooth speaker as output.

I did install sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center and the sound menu became the old one again. Good but once I've connected my bluetooth speakers via the bluetooth indicator in the panel there is still no speaker to select as output.

What package do I need to install?

I'm looking for a list which paths/files are safe to exclude for a full system/home backup.

Considering that I have a list of installed packages.

• /home/*/.thumbnails
• /home/*/.cache
• /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache
• /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/OfflineCache
• /home/*/.local/share/Trash

• /home/*/.gvfs/

• /tmp/

• /var/tmp/
• not real folders but can cause severe problems when 'restoring'
  • /dev
  • /proc
  • /sys

What about...

• /var/ in general?
• /var/backups/ - can get quite large
• /var/log/ - does not require much space and can help for later comparison
• /lost+found/

I'm still running Ubuntu 10.04 with quite a few PPAs. Amongst the PPAs there is Guiodic (Guido Iodice) Lucid quasi-rolling :) PPA which brings most recent versions of many programs to my desktop.

My steps:

1. sudo update-manager -d
2. click on upgrade on the appearing window
3. wait for the magic to happen: prepare to upgrade and setting new software channels

4. during 'calculating the changes' I will get the following error message in the panel

   An error occurred, please run Package Manager form the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: ' Error: Marking the upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolver generated breaks, this may be caused by help packages.)'This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies

When I check Synaptic/apt-get I can't find any errors or hint toward broken packages

Could this error be because of many PPA versions being newer than 10.04 original versions?