help please if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Amebaid]

this is my problem

first i can't find my files on the hard disk someone told me to go to /home/username but this is it

[img width=400 height=311]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/hd.png[/img]

even when i go to /dev i see the hda and hdb but they are locked

[img width=400 height=122]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/hd1.png[/img]

[img width=400 height=300]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/snapshot1.png[/img]

[img width=400 height=300]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/snapshot2.png[/img]


there is another one ..

which is arabic support how to ?
i went here first
[img width=400 height=305]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/arabic.jpg[/img]
but at last the folders on the dvd was like this
[img width=400 height=206]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/arabic2.jpg[/img]

P.S these files and folder are on the dvd not on the hard disk so i still have the major problem that is the hard disk

[penguin.ch]

Re: help

the drive i put thoses files on is NTFS file system ... i think i should convert that

NO !!! - Do not try to "convert" this file system, unless you want to get rid of "all and everything" it contains!

Instead, include the file system in question in "read-only" mode to your operating system (- further reading).

[Amebaid]

Re: help

can you plz tell me what can i do ...

this is my first day on kubuntu and i'm really lost i can't even get to my drives

i mean where is the explorer in linux

or how to explore my data

[Amebaid]

Re: help please if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!

Another problem i was facing some troubles when using kopete and kmail

[img width=400 height=206]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/dfeb36fa.png[/img]

[img width=400 height=215]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p243/Amebaid/12.png[/img]

[marshallbanana]

Re: help please if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!

You have been using the explorer for kubuntu, konqueror. The reason you cannot see the files on your ntfs drive is because that drive is not mounted. If you follow the instructions in the link provided by penguin.ch they explain how to go about mounting your ntfs partition. Once you have mounted it you will then be able to view it in konqueror (at whatever location you chose to mount it).

[fdv]

Re: help please if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!

this is my problem
first i can't find my files on the hard disk someone told me to go to /home/username but this is it

Open Konqueror and tpye one character: /
In other words, a forward slash. JUST type ONLY that. In the dropdown you will see all of your directories on that drive. Whoever told you to go to your home directory was telling you only 10% of what you need to know.
Try typing this into Konqueror: /media/hda1
There is no "explorer" view exactly like in Windows. (Okay, someone will correct me and say Open Konqueror, go to View, go to Show Navigation Panel, click the Root folder icon, expand the Media icon in the left pane, and you will have something sort of like Explorer.)

For Arabic language you need a localized build of the OS. Try here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/doc%40ar.../msg05524.html

The DVD looks like it is trying to display filenames in a langauge that the font cannot display. In other words, you have a default font set up that cannot show the file names, so it shows what you see. Is this is your install disk, then I don't know..!

The kopete and kmail apps crashed. What you have is a bug report tool popping up.

Hope some of this helped...
I see you are experienced in Windows. It is my experience that when you compare a task to Windows, you will be told that Windows and Linux are very different. When you complain that things are very different, you'll be told that they're not really all that different. It's a toss-up. Some things are the same, like the keyboard shortcuts for cutting and pasting. Some things are different, like installing software. Whatever you're told, just remember that it probably took you a while to learn Windows, and it will take you a while to learn Linux, too.

[penguin.ch]

Re: help please if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!

It is my experience that when you compare a task to Windows, you will be told that Windows and Linux are very different. When you complain that things are very different, you'll be told that they're not really all that different. It's a toss-up.

Not really: Linux as an operating system is complete different to any Windoze "OS" you may know. Period.

But (!) in an attempt to ease things up for those "converting" from Windoze to (any) Linux, some developers have started to implement "Windozisms" on Linux systems (which, from my point of view, is a questionable move, but that's a different story ...).

[penguin.ch]

Re: help please if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!

Amebaid,

to get you started in a useful way, I'd recommend an "one app at a time" approach:

First and foremost, make friends with the file manager (by means of these docs), and leave aside all other apps, or else you're bound to feed the chaos you're trying to clear up.

At second, learn how to handle the console ("Konsole") - which you will need in order to take the help we are trying to give, so to speak.