Alright, this should be good for a chuckle.
So, I wanted to move the entire contents of my /home/$USER
folder to my new storage SSD that I had recently installed to replace a failing HDD.
I started this process by copying my ~/Downloads
folder to the new drive, removing the original folder, and then linking to the new folder, so the path remained the same.
This seemed to work well but I realized it would take forever to do everything in the /home/$USER
folder individually, so I had the bright idea of just doing the same thing with the entire directory.
Well, I was able to copy the entire directory (all but one file, which didnāt exist), but I was not able to remove the /home/myname
directory, so, this caused complications when trying to link to the copy on the new drive. Before I knew it, overwriting was being done, and now things just seem like a mess. Iād like to just delete my original /home/$USER
folder and replace it with the copy I made.
Please advise.
(I hope this made sense, never tried this kind of thing before.)