I have not yet ran rm --recursive /home/matsb/Documents/*
You have been a great help to me so naturally I’m nothing but thankful and I do not blame you for anything that happens. Your help is greatly appreciated. The command returned this:
[matsb2@mats-hppavilionnotebook /]$ du --human --max-depth=1 /home/matsb2/
4,0K /home/matsb2/Templates
43M /home/matsb2/.mozilla
195M /home/matsb2/.cache
864K /home/matsb2/.local
1,4M /home/matsb2/.config
32K /home/matsb2/.kde4
4,0K /home/matsb2/Pictures
4,0K /home/matsb2/Documents
4,0K /home/matsb2/Public
8,0K /home/matsb2/Desktop
4,0K /home/matsb2/Music
4,0K /home/matsb2/Downloads
4,0K /home/matsb2/Videos
240M /home/matsb2/
I assume this is a way of checking the contents of a folder. If I run the same command, but for the old user, this is the output:
[matsb2@mats-hppavilionnotebook ~]$ sudo du --human --max-depth=1 /home/matsb/
[sudo] password for matsb2:
4,0K /home/matsb/Templates
210M /home/matsb/.vscode
8,0K /home/matsb/.oracle_jre_usage
47M /home/matsb/.mozilla
56K /home/matsb/.texlive
12K /home/matsb/Arduino
852M /home/matsb/.cache
1,6G /home/matsb/.local
1006M /home/matsb/.thunderbird
168K /home/matsb/.java
392M /home/matsb/.config
32K /home/matsb/.kde4
76K /home/matsb/.pki
12K /home/matsb/.gnome
16K /home/matsb/.steam
4,0K /home/matsb/Pictures
4,0K /home/matsb/Documents
4,0K /home/matsb/Public
24K /home/matsb/Desktop
12K /home/matsb/.arduino15
118M /home/matsb/.cpanm
408K /home/matsb/.lyx
264K /home/matsb/perl5
4,0K /home/matsb/Music
387M /home/matsb/Downloads
4,0K /home/matsb/Videos
4,6G /home/matsb/
Both seem to contain some folders. Every folder on the new user is empty, and I haven’t cleared any of the folders on the old user.
The Documents folder is empty on both users so I think it might be a bad example. If I try to copy a directory I know contains files, like the downloads folder, this is the result:
[matsb2@mats-hppavilionnotebook ~]$ sudo ls /home/matsb/Downloads/
arduino-1.8.15-linux64.tar.xz discord-0.0.15.tar.gz grub-customizer_5.1.0.tar.gz Simplenote-linux-2.15.0-x64.tar.gz yay-git yui.png
[matsb2@mats-hppavilionnotebook ~]$ sudo cp --verbose --recursive --preserve=timestamps /home/matsb/Downloads/* /home/matsb2/Downloads/
cp: cannot stat '/home/matsb/Downloads/*': No such file or directory
[matsb2@mats-hppavilionnotebook ~]$ sudo ls /home/matsb2/Downloads/
[matsb2@mats-hppavilionnotebook ~]$