Newbie,got a magic folder to work, no luck with USM RESOLVED
Posted: 29 Jun 2014, 14:00
Hi, I am new to linux and downloaded the Porteus kde and put on usb drive, after some tinkering and forum search got a save.dat file on my hard drive to save changes like browser add ons and bookmarks for a start. That worked ok, until I updated the USM, it said it was updated but would not run. After deleting the save.dat file and starting again , I made anothe save.dat file and set up my browser again and internet connection as wouldn't want to set these up every time you log in, so this time I thought I would just do a copy of the save.dat file (on hard drive) so I could just replace it if changes were corrupt. So then I tried the USM update on this now fresh boot but with browser set up saved and after a reboot the USM again will not run, it gave an error message but can't remember it..So decided to delete the save.dat file and replace it with the copy of one made after browser set up but before USM update.. Did not work, can not mount file or something..Some what dismayed and lack of knowlege next time I went to a internet cafe I downloaded porteus this time with mate and put that on the usb as well.
So ran porteus mate and wanting browser addons etc saved so not have to piddle around all the time being disconcerted with changes .dat file experience because updates and changes was using payg data allowance, decided to try a magic folder.. After reading the tutorial at least three times I finally understood how the live file system is extracted from the dormant file system and changes made to a live folder are put in the dormant system to extract, so I managed to get changes made to firefox browser to be put in a magic folder. So I can boot and have my browser how I like it now ,not bad for 2 weeks tinkering hey???!!! Got a save.dat container put on hard drive for porteus mate and tried to update the USM , updated, so it said, another 17MB(or so) of data used again. But the USM does not work after the update. No message, nothing...
One other thing I managed was to download Bleachbit so hopefully my .dat container was not just filling up with junk, download ok and just a right click converts it but had a job finding the file to run it due to not knowing much about linux.. Have ordered a couple of cheap second hand books hopefully to help. By the way I could not get bleachbit to work with KDE edition but worked ok with mate edition.
So that is my experience with Porteus over 3 weeks, a lot of head scratching but I still made a donation. The duckduckgo search bar seems to give better results, in the info it was stated that it helps privacy but when made a donation the donation was to a GMAIL account, surely you are aware that yahoo and gmail are the 2 main privacy compromising accounts for mail sent to or from them...I use a Safe-mail.net account , maybe you could check them out
SO now I need help with the USM as it does not work and have no idea of how to proceed with it....
thanks
ww
So ran porteus mate and wanting browser addons etc saved so not have to piddle around all the time being disconcerted with changes .dat file experience because updates and changes was using payg data allowance, decided to try a magic folder.. After reading the tutorial at least three times I finally understood how the live file system is extracted from the dormant file system and changes made to a live folder are put in the dormant system to extract, so I managed to get changes made to firefox browser to be put in a magic folder. So I can boot and have my browser how I like it now ,not bad for 2 weeks tinkering hey???!!! Got a save.dat container put on hard drive for porteus mate and tried to update the USM , updated, so it said, another 17MB(or so) of data used again. But the USM does not work after the update. No message, nothing...
One other thing I managed was to download Bleachbit so hopefully my .dat container was not just filling up with junk, download ok and just a right click converts it but had a job finding the file to run it due to not knowing much about linux.. Have ordered a couple of cheap second hand books hopefully to help. By the way I could not get bleachbit to work with KDE edition but worked ok with mate edition.
So that is my experience with Porteus over 3 weeks, a lot of head scratching but I still made a donation. The duckduckgo search bar seems to give better results, in the info it was stated that it helps privacy but when made a donation the donation was to a GMAIL account, surely you are aware that yahoo and gmail are the 2 main privacy compromising accounts for mail sent to or from them...I use a Safe-mail.net account , maybe you could check them out
SO now I need help with the USM as it does not work and have no idea of how to proceed with it....
thanks
ww