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This article is here to help you find your files you see in file manager but can't seem to find via terminal.
This article is here to help you find your files you see in file manager but can't seem to find via terminal.
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=== Location table ===
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|Nokia N900/Images
|Nokia N900/Images
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|Nokia N900/Sounds
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|/home/user/MyDocs/.sounds
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|Nokia N900/Videos
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|/home/user/MyDocs/.videos
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|Memory card
|Memory card
|/media/mmc1
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And if you still don't find what you're looking for, you can try to use find at terminal as following:
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<code>find /path/ -name filename*</code>
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Path can be for example / but it will give you errors if you dont have [[Root access]]. And if you don't give exact filename, remember to use wildcards(*)!
[[Category:Beginners]]
[[Category:Beginners]]

Revision as of 06:26, 7 December 2009

This article is here to help you find your files you see in file manager but can't seem to find via terminal.

Note: power users should know how to use find, so lets keep this article beginner-friendly!


Location table

File manager path Real path
Nokia N900 /home/user/MyDocs
Nokia N900/Documents /home/user/MyDocs/.documents
Nokia N900/Images /home/user/MyDocs/.images
Nokia N900/Sounds /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds
Nokia N900/Videos /home/user/MyDocs/.videos
Memory card /media/mmc1

And if you still don't find what you're looking for, you can try to use find at terminal as following:

find /path/ -name filename*

Path can be for example / but it will give you errors if you dont have Root access. And if you don't give exact filename, remember to use wildcards(*)!