Since I've never done that I don't know what would happen. Can it be done? Would deleted .wh. files become .wh.wh. files? I only do it to my save.dat files when it's not being used. Have you tried it with one of your live system's /porteus/changes folders? And if you do try it please report your results. If a file has been deleted I don't think deleting it a second time will hang the system.
Module activation - folder doesn't appear in live system
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Module activation - folder doesn't appear in live system
To quote myself:
I indeed fixed my "Module activation - folder doesn't appear in live system" issue by deleting the very /mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.basilisk-dev/.wh..wh..opq file.Rava wrote: ↑10 Nov 2023, 22:12I think I found the culprit:Code: Select all
guest@rava:~$ find /mnt/live/memory/changes/home -name ".wh.*" /mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.basilisk-dev/.wh..wh..opq
And here I thought identifying the .wh* file sitting in /mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.basilisk-dev/ being the reason why the subfolders and files in /home/guest/.basilisk-dev/ not being displayed and therefore deleting that very .wh* file was a no-brainer, but seems the "rm /mnt/live/memory/path/to/the/one/bothersome/.wh*" file needed to be spelled out after all.
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And please take special care to not delete all .wh* files in your life system, only delete a single one when you encounter a similar issue as described in my initial post.
Under usual circumstances, the .wh* files do their job as intended and there usually is never a need to delete any of these from your life system.
Only when there is a condition that you do not get files or folders from a newly activated module you have to search for the responsible singular .wh* file and only delete that one singular .wh* file.
Cheers!
Yours Rava
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Where do your .wh. files exist rava? In RAM or on your /porteus drive? And how many do you currently have?
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I answered that and more in the other thread: [HOWTO] fix module activation - folder (or file) doesn't appear in live system
I answered that and more in the other thread: [HOWTO] fix module activation - folder (or file) doesn't appear in live system
Cheers!
Yours Rava
Yours Rava