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OK! Back! it worked well THIS time, after adding the required /home/[username]/Video and other related ones I wanted to exclude. The tgz came in at 1.3 GB. I had recently reinstalled my system making...

This looked like a good thing to try, although I suppose I messed up on one of the procedures. When you gave examples of exclude, I took it for face value and did it as shown. I dropped: in tar cvpzf...

thanks Karthick87! I tried that sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/* by dino99, but it said it couldn't because of a "partial" directory? or similar...so your thing worked!

Oh, and I'm using Lucid...

back in 2000-2001 I traveled six states, teaching basic computer skills classes for a small family owned company. At the time, I only knew about Linux, read about it, didn't actually try it. Then I...

man oh man! I am soooooooooooooooo glad someone posted this! I was looking at that same window for about half an hour, nearly CLOSED it, but then, did this search..."TAB", wow! Never heard that one...

yes, been using Natty Nar for about three days. Before then I have been using Lupu and Puppy 4 (love Puppy 4, so-so with Lupu). So my Unity sidebar is stuck; this is the first thing to go wrong since...