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Transfer 150GB of files from an old MacBook Pro with Ubuntu 13.04 Live DVD

My girlfriend's old MacBook Pro 2009 (5,4) stopped working. I have tried several times to reinstall OS X, but could not do so. There appears to be something really really wrong with the OS. Since she ...
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Having trouble executing a compiled C program

I am running an Ubuntu v10.04 through VirtualBox. To test the persistence of files I create in the virtual machine, I wrote a very basic C program. When I shutdown the virtual machine and restart it, ...
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Configuring File Associations in Ubuntu with Wine

Related to this question, I have Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I downloaded PlayOnLinux 4.1.9 (the Precise version) and used it to install Microsoft Office 2010 Pro. PlayOnLinux downloaded Wine 1.5.21 and ...
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Samba share file permissions - users can't open files that I create

I have set up an Ubuntu server (12.04 LTS) for samba file sharing. The problem I'm having has to do with files that I create on the server. Other users can't open them because I created them under a ...
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How to permanently change the file/directory permission [closed]

How do I change the permission of file/directories such that I am able to create, edit, delete files/directories anywhere in my system? Currently I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I tried sudo chmod 777 -r ...
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executing binary file: file not found

I know there are similar questions out there, but I haven't found a solution nor this exact case. The binary was built on Arch Linux using its GCC 4.7. The package works fine on the build system. The ...
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Opening files from Ubuntu server over ssh from Mac Terminal

So I SSH into a Ubuntu server and try to open the file in a Mac program (Coda) and get an error: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Using the command open myfile.html This ...
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How do I open a .bak file on Linux?

I have received a file of .bak format, let it be foo.bak. I don't know if it is a MS-DOS file or Linux/Unix file. What I know is that I can't open it because my Linux (Ubuntu) does not give any hint ...
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How to transfer files from Windows to Ubuntu on Virtualbox?

How should I transfer files from Windows to Ubuntu installed on Virtualbox? When I plugged in a USB, it only pops up in Windows. How can I see it in Ubuntu?
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How to move a file to /usr/local in Ubuntu?

I am working in the most recent Ubuntu in a 64 bit machine. I am currently on the Gnome command prompt and I am trying to move a file under the Downloads directory to /usr/local. However, it gives me ...
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'Open .bash_profile' conflict on Ubuntu

I want to edit .bash_profile on my Ubuntu system. When I try to run the command, it gives this message: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Please help me get around this ...
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How to recover a missing file

I am running ubuntu and last week the system didn't let me alter files as if I had no write permissions. Then on reboot the system did a check of the system which took some time. Then everything went ...