Confirm EFS keys are exported (Windows EFS).

Error 'Access to the cloud file is denied' backing up OneDrive.Backing up Windows network shares and UNC paths.Or you can copy them to your USB stick direct from your Windows drive, again just using NEMO, if that is what you want. Linux can easily read Windows disk formats so it can read a windows drive (NTFS or FAT32 partition) and then copy the files to a linux (ext4 etc.) filesystem. Keep clicking on the directories just like in windows explorer until you come to the one(s) you want, and then select and drag and drop them to whatever directory in /home or elsewhere that you want. Just click on that and you should see your Windows directories and files. If you see one of them called something like sda1 or sda2 that is probably your Windows C drive. Along the LHS there should be a list of 'devices' and directories. This is a two step process, because you need to boot windows, write the USB stick, boot linux read the USB stick.ī) This option is quicker. ( if NEMO does not open in DUAL pane mode just hit the F3 key.) Once the stick is mounted you can just go into NEMO and drag and drop the files from the stick to your home directory.

(If it does not do that, then there are lots of threads here to help with that also, but it usually works.) Once you have that USB stick, you can boot into Linux insert the USB stick and Linux should see it and mount it automatically. Not one you have formatted to ext4, but just as it comes from the mfg (usually formatted as FAT32). To Transfer files from Windows to Linux,you have two options:Ī) (via USB stick) Under windows write the files to a blank USB stick. You want to get files from your C drive to say /home/myuser? I assume that your laptop is capable of booting either windows or Linux? So you have a Windows C drive and a Linux 'root partition' (also known as /).

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