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I needed some data from my other harddrive in my laptop, my work harddrive, but the harddrive is NTFS formatted and this is something that again is not natively supported.

I Google’d and found that NTFS-3G offers the best NTFS support, both for read and write. However, I am not planning to do any writing to my work harddrive, since NTFS has always been an issue in Linux and one write might break the entire partition.

Looking at the NTFS-3G website, there was too many instructions for my taste, so I thought of the easiest way, just using features already available in Ubuntu.

Here is how to get it working….

1. Go to Add/Remove

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I use rar-files pretty frequently, and I found that the built in Archive Manager in Ubuntu does not support rar-files (both creation and extraction) out of the box.

For the more experienced, here is the quick guide to make is work: Open a Terminal > Enter the command “sudo apt-get install rar unrar”

For the more inexperienced, here is a screenshot guide.

This would be the usual error message you receive when trying to extract a file.

When try to create a rar archive, you will also have noticed, that rar is not selectable from the archive options.

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