Ubuntu 10.10 cannot find Autorun

>Has my copy of Ubuntu 10.10 been corrupted?
Probably not.

>Evolution no longer functions.

Try resetting your evolution profile by moving the folder ".evolution" in your home folder (turn on hidden files with view->show hidden files in the file manager) to something like ".evolution-backup".

Installing/reinstalling the program will have no effect if the problem is due to a damaged profile.

>Can not load my printer software, cannot find autorun.

Autoruns on disks are easily abused as virus loading mechanisms, and are thus considered a bad idea. Thus:

1) Ubuntu does not support auto-running of binaries on pluggable media.
2) Autoruns are not a function of the CD. They are WINDOWS programs running of the disk. You are running ubuntu, and thus these are not going to function.

If you supply your printer model/make, we might be able to help you find appropriate drivers.

Hello mycae
Restarted Evolution after moving .evolution. That was about an hour ago it is still downloading very slowly.
  one bar says 'checking for new mail (0% complete)'
  the other bar says 'Downloading new messages for offline mode (10% complete)
so far this is the same thing it was doing.

I have always used wine to load my printer and never had a problem before.
The printer is an Epson Stylus CX9400Fax

Finally Evolution down loaded. attempted to send email this is the error message I received. Same as before

Error while Sending message.

MAIL FROM command failed: <email address hidden>: Sender address rejected: not owned by user c2mcatee

>MAIL FROM command failed: <email address hidden>: Sender address rejected: not owned by
 >user c2mcatee

You need to look for your ISPs' mail settings; they are barring you from sending email using their server; this is either a configuration error at your side, or a problem with their mail server settings.

Are you sending with the same email address you use to receive and login?

Regarding your printer, this is supposedly supported out-of-the-box. Can you open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), and with the printer turned on, and plugged in, can you enter the following command

lsusb

and then post the results here?

mycae

Yes I am this worked fine until the other day when I reloaded Ubuntu 10.10

it looks like the system is seeing the printer Seiko Epson
cliffm@cliffm:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:083a Seiko Epson Corp. CX9300F/CX9400Fax/DX9400F
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

mycae
I find Thunderbird receives and sends email.

Have found drivers for Epson stylus CX9400Fax at AVASYS.com. Tried to install but received this message

cliffm@cliffm:~$ sudo dpkg -i pipslite_1.5.0-*_i386.deb
[sudo] password for cliffm:
dpkg: error processing pipslite_1.5.0-*_i386.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 pipslite_1.5.0-*_i386.deb

Have contacted AVA also. This looks like their problem, unless I have done something wrong.
The Evolution still works like it did.

Thanks mycae
Thanks for the hand holding.
When I went back to the AVA site I found a better down load at the bottom of the page.
This down load starts the package manager in Ubuntu Software Center. I am now printing just fine these are fairly new drivers.
You gave me some ideas to try and get Evolution back. It still won't send emails although Thunderbird does. Just don't like contact list.
Thanks again for your help.
cliff

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.