Thanks!
I used the top command and it works! I have 2753420k total, 916808k used memory. I noticed it says two users and I suppose one is me and the other is root though I do not use root?
By the way, you linux sage you, have you used the exiftool? I have it installed though not sure how to use it. I have read to clean your photos, just cd to the their folder and run:
exiftool -all= *.jpg
However, I am not sure how to "cd to their folder" and when I run is that in the terminal after I "cd" it?
Some processes (OS related) need extra privileges to make things work on a computer system so when you boot up they are automatically loaded and run as the root user, most of the time you should not worry about them.
I have never used the exiftool, but when someone says cd to the "folder" (actually directory, cd = change directory), what it means is that the active directory in the terminal should be the directory where the pics are located.
To determine where you are located right now, type the command "pwd" and to find where your pics are located you can use a graphical file browser like nautilus (or just click on open home directory).
e.g.
- Your username is "blabla" and you named your computer "mypc", therefore when you open a terminal the prompt will show something like
blabla@mypc ~$
if you type pwd you will most likely get
/home/blabla
which is what the ~ means actually.
Now if your pics are located say on /home/blabla/familypics
then you can type "cd familypics" (relative path to directory), this will only work if you are located in the immediate upper level directory (i.e. pwd prints /home/blabla), or if you just want to go straight to the desired directory without using your current position just do "cd /home/blabla/familypics" (absolute or full path to directory).
One last detail, if the directory name has spaces in it, like in /home/blabla/My Pictures, the command you should type is "cd /home/blabla/My\ Pictures", otherwise it won't work.
