Unable to find my screenshots after much searching

[Devolve]

Hi. I cannot find my screenshots. I have read some posts on the forum in regards to screenshots, but I am still unable to find them. I am running Ubuntu(linux). I checked in my base folder, but there is no screenshots folder. I took my screenshots by typing "/screenshot" into the console. What could be the problem? Where are my screenshots?
Thanks for your help.

[TinMan]

Are you sure you checked ~/.tremulous/base ?
Check all the directories in ~/.tremulous

[Devolve]

Thanks TinMan. I should probably state right now that I am pretty ignorant about my OS(Linux). I've been using the GUI to get to the base folder. And I don't know why people post the ~ symbol and the " . " before tremulous. I have essentially zero knowledge of the linux filesystem. Is there a place I can type in a file path? Something akin to the Windows "run" box?
But, using the means that I have(the GUI and the search function of Ubuntu) I have been unable to find the screenshots folder in the base folder.

[TinMan]

If you're using nautilus (the default file manager on Ubuntu) then you can do this:


~/ is just a shortcut of /home/user/, where user is your username. The "." in front of the tremulous directory makes it a hidden directory, you can press "Ctrl+H" in Nautilus to show hidden directories.


Alt+F2 opens the "Run" dialog in Gnome.

[Devolve]

Thank you TinMan! That worked like a charm. And I found my Screenshots folder, and everything is there. I wonder why it doesn't show up when I find the base folder with the search feature's GUI? But anyway, thanks again TinMan!

[Odin]

A "dot" file or directory(.tremulous is an example) is the equivalent of a hidden file in Windows. If you want to hide a file or directory from showing in all file browsers(ones that respect what a dot file is, such as Nautilus), then put a period in front of the filename.

The ~ symbol is short for the current user's home directory. It actually counts as an environment variable. If your username is "johndoe" then ~ returns /home/johndoe to whatever program you're using.

[Devolve]

Thanks Odin. This info definitely helps. Very educational thread. lol I am so ignorant about linux.

[kevlarman]

The ~ symbol is short for the current user's home directory. It actually counts as an environment variable. If your username is "johndoe" then ~ returns /home/johndoe to whatever program you're using.

actually ~ will refer to the home folder listed in the currently visible /etc/passwd, $HOME will contain what ~ was when (or slightly before sometimes) your login shell was created (unless you change it). it's possible for them to be different if you create a chrooted shell (~ will refer to the folder in /etc/passwd in the chroot, $HOME to the folder in /etc/passwd outside it)