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I did the usb thing and it worked. Thanks. I already had a backup of the home folder made somehow the same time it was deleted.


EDIT: Nope, I lied. It totally failed. Guess i'll just have to reinstall everything.

I don't know how to get heightened privileges in the file explorer, and now I can't even log in.
I really don't want to lose my files tho.

Naww...Something scary. s are cute.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 05, 2016, 08:35:01 PM
Do you know what might be wrong with it?

Nope. I know it was mistreated by a 4 year old, tho. Meaning, it was bashed around a lot and then stopped charging(we had to charge it by USB, but it needed an AC adapter that we didn't have) and it had a crack along the back near the ports.

Quote from: gameblabla on November 05, 2016, 10:41:37 PM
How you managed to delete your home folder ?
Unless you were root or Elementary OS is really bad, i don't know.
In any case, if you have access to a terminal (try Ctrl+Alt+F6 during the login screen) or the recovery mode with a shell mode,
you could try to create a new user :

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adduser yourusernamehere
Then log in with your new username and delete your old broken username.

Alternatively, you could just remove your linux partition with the usb installer
and reinstall Elementary OS.

I was doing something in the terminal, and in all my n00bliness, it somehow got deleted. When I saw this, I attempted to create a new folder, but it said permission denied.

Also, I've been using ElementaryOS long enough to place some files I don't want to lose, so...

I am able to get to the root shell, but "startx" failed because of an authorization error. I'll try that.
I just wish I could open the file explorer with root permission, or have full control like I do with Windows 10. It makes no sense that I'm unauthorized to do certain tasks if there's no one else who is.

Too much. That's probably why they were so unpopular.

I didn't know the command to use.
But I'll try Juju's suggestion.

EDIT: I can access the recovery mode, but I have no idea what to do when I get there.

Well, as the title says, I'm kind of not...

So is this: https://youtu.be/Uf8nPDGuvdM

You need better friends.

I somehow managed to erase my home directory in elementaryOS. Now I can't login. I do have a backup for it, but I am unable to place it where it's needed because "Permission denied." Apparently, I don't have permission to do anything, even tho I have the only account(which is marked as Administrator) on the Linux half of my laptop. How do I restore the backup if I can't login?

That makes no sense...is he blind or did you try to lynch him?

If you look at them long enough, they turn into grayish blobs of animated blubber.

Alright.

@Hayleia , is it possible to reinstall a DE and recover the files?