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   Paul to Bit Twister   
   Re: all Appimages not working Ubuntu 18.   
   01 Sep 22 15:12:24   
   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 9/1/2022 12:09 PM, Bit Twister wrote:   
   > On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 11:37:37 -0400, wAYNE wrote:   
   >   
   >> I'll take a look at it again once my back up from a month ago is   
   >> finished.  First step will be to determine, after I again update Ubuntu   
   >> once again, whether or not the appimages are still working.  Then, I   
   >> might consider the upgrade and test it out once I have made a current   
   >> back up once again.   
   >>   
   >> I had some problems in that there was I believe a small partition in   
   >> between, so I couldn't expand the partition in question.  And I couldn't   
   >> delete the partition.  It's used while Ubuntu is in operation, I'll be   
   >> darned if I can think of the name now.... serves the same purpose as a   
   >> "scratch" drive for certain programs.   
   >   
   > Yep, moving stuff around while in use is a good way to create problems.   
   >   
   > For partition work, I use gparted from a systemrescue cd or live cd   
   > That way you can dismount a partition on the target system.   
   >   
   > See http://www.sysresccd.org/Download for latest release.   
   >   
      
   He should also have the media he used to install Ubuntu,   
   which is sufficient for a gparted session.   
      
       Paul   
      
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