I have just installed version 3.8 on a 16G Toshiba USB drive with 4G of persistence. 

When I look in my Documents folder it shows I have only 2.4G of persistence available.
Is this because I have installed additional software - eg: Spotify?

If so is there a way for such additional programmes to be installed in the remaining space on the "non persistent" area of the drive?

Hi forum.

I've just set up an rsync command to make backup from home folder (ext4) to a mounted fat partition (Veracrypt volume), and I ran into a issue that rsync choose to make backup from most files - instead of make backup of only the files where date is different. That is it seems to make extra backup of files that seemingly/should have the same date stamp in source as in destination folder.
The second thing is that rsync does creates numerous empty folders into subfolders of backup directory (/rsync_backup/).

The question I have - what causes this behavior?

Extended info or comments that I believe may be relevant:
- I have run rsync before some times on Ubuntu, but never went ahead and asked in any forum. Seems that this happens only the first time that rsync is run towards a destination directory. Next time I run rsync - if it behave the same as before - same command would work as expected, and only those files that is truly changed will copy (and backup is made from old version).
- Before I ran rsync towards the new FAT volume, I had an old FAT volume that was filled up. So I made a new bigger volume - still fat file system because of access within windows - and copied all files from the old fat volume to the new fat volume.
- Is there known issues with rsync handling of fat file stamp?

The full rsync command:

Hi,

having read of Bluetooth security issues, particularly the BlueBorne malware, I wonder is it safe to use bluetooth to connect phone hotspot to LL computer?

I have a laptop that I use very rarely, and I turned it on the other day and attempted to upgrade it. 

LL 3.4 went to update, and when I attempted to reboot the system it hung during the boot process.  I used Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get rid of the spash screen, and the messages on the screen were no longer aligned properly (Like the end of line was a vertical tab, and the text just wrapped when it hit the end of the screen (but any characters printed after the end of the line were lost).

The last messages on the screen where (and normal registration returned so messages started at the beginning of the line as expected):

Hello,

is there a way to correctly back up the VirtualBox VM's used currently in LL 3 series so that when Linux Lite 4.0 is installed they can be then be add in to VirtualBox when it is installed from Lite Software and still work ?
Or would the machines have to be made again in LL 4.0 ?

Having installed 2.whatever on several PCs and laptops with great results,  I was given a 27" iMac, which is a big-screen jump (pun intended) from the old desk-side whatsit box. 
I  loaded 2.6.6 (64bit) onto a new HD,  and WOW, beautiful and super-fast !
That is, until I attempted to install a second LAN printer, an Epson 840. 
The first HP CM1312 works perfectly. The Epson would not complete the synaptic load process without a error message about libc??? 64?? amd???.
Oh well, time for a new OS.  Lite 3.8 downloaded, and well... it  made me sick.  I went from a wonderful 2.6.6 to this ?????  Here I sit waiting for the worlds slowest bootup, to a 27" buzzard-feather on a eerie mustard background, then a solid blue screen asking for a password for "iMac".
My only alternative is the power-OFF switch.  You can keep 3.8.
Now, my question is, can I install 2.6 (32 bit (not 64) and hope that cures the Epson problem ?
Or, does the iMac require a 64bit OS ?       

For a while I've noticed that the Desktop Widget on a Core2Duo laptop of mine (now running 64bit 3.8 ) has been showing 'never updated' for the update status even though I've performed several updates, including the upgrade to 3.8 (but the problem precedes that).
I saw that the updates script for the widget looks for update dates in the history.log in /var/log/apt/ so had a look at that.
I found that no log existed for updates after 24 November 2017 and that the last entry for that date showed an Update Start Date but not an Update End Date.
No later update has been logged here, but is in LLUpdates.log

So I then did another update to see what happened. It went through the usual prompts without any problem but once it started the package downloads it just disappeared from view altogether - no window, no status icon - but apt processes were clearly active in the Task Manager. When update was completed the LLUpdates.log appeared and seemed to be all in order.

However, history.log remained unchanged and the Desktop Widget still reports 'never updated'.

I'd be grateful for any pointers on how to fix this, which looks to be more of an apt issue rather than anything to do with the widget.

Thank you

Hi Jerry: I have posted this problem in a thread which claims to have been resolved, but is clearly not so. I have installed Linux lite v 3.8 on two 32 bit PCs (Asrock motherboards, 1 GB RAM, AMD XP CPUs ,1900), and immediately after installation Firefox and Thunderbird will not run, but crash straight away, producing the Mozilla crash report window. F & T however run properly without any problem in the 64-bit version of Linux lite 3.8 on a 64-bit PC.

As I have suggested in that other thread, there are a number of items posted in various places on the Internet and on other OS forums, which suggest that this problem could be due to the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird being included in the distributed OSs - i.e. the 64-bit versions instead of the 32-bit versions.  This would make sense from my observations and is possibly because Firefox and Thunderbird (F & T) are carried over into Linux lite from Ubuntu and at the time the 32-bit version of Linux lite 3.8 was complied Ubuntu had the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird within it; since then Ubuntu have corrected their error, and now have the correct 32-bit versions of F & T included, which is why F & T run properly in the newest release of Ubuntu, but Linux lite have not corrected this error which probably rolled over from Ubuntu?

This would also explain why this problem does not exist in the 3.8 64-bit version of Linux lite. The solution it seems is to delete the present wrong versions of F & T in 32-bit Linux lite and then install the proper 32-bit versions of F & T direct from the Mozilla site. I have not yet done this, but would suggest therefore that these wrong versions of F & T in Linux lite 3.8 should perhaps be corrected.

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