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Asked by nokangaroo

Can I search my filesystem by date? I just uninstalled the ubuntustudio-audio and plugins packages as I have reason to suspect that the rt-kernel will not work properly on the Mac, but now I have lots of launchers in /usr/share that I'd like to get rid of in case I should ever want to try ubuntustudio again: these launchers seem to interfere with a reinstall. I suppose I could delete them one by one but there would be a danger of error. Incidentally, since installing and removing ubuntustudio I get automuting of the front speakers when I plug in my headphones. isn't ubuntu fascinating?

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

Hi :)

In the normal file-browser, nautilus in Ubuntu, just click on the View menu and change the view to "List". That should get a column for "Date Last Modified", if you right click on the grey bar where the column titles are then you can add or remove columns. If you click on one of the column titles then it re-sorts the column although you might have to click it a 2nd time to get the highest at the top and lowest at the bottom of the list.

Alternatively just don't worry about them because when you re-install all those files will probably get over-written anyway.

For glitchy sound problems, if that re-appears, then hopefully something early in one of these 2 guides might help
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
Did you install a Mac OS or was that pre-installed?

Anyway if you are more used to Mac than Windows then this guide might be more useful
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromMacOSX
although here's the Windows one too
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

e.g. via terminal
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/15-practical-linux-find-command-examples/

or see manpages e.g.
man find
man ls

e.g.
ls -lt /usr/share |less

About Nautilus
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/gosnautilus-7.html.en

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

Hi :)

Have you been able to try the new Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially released?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta2
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal. Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before 10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your system for you

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

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