I have installed Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10 on my PC, but I cannot find my root directory in which the bash works in. I know that it should be located in
C:/Users/[Username]/Appdata/Local/Lxss
but it's not there. I have verified that my files exist but the directory does not show, even with hidden files shown. Any help would be much appreciated!
Please DO NOT access the Linux filesystem from Windows: Read this for more info: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-not-change-linux-files-using-windows-apps-and-tools/
We are working on improving filesystem interop in future releases, but for now, if you want to share files between Windows & Linux, store the shared files in the Windows filesystem, and access them from Linux via /mnt/c/...
I wanted to copy a file from Windows desktop to Ubuntu user directory and I was searching for Ubuntu root directory using Windows file explorer.
Later I realised that Windows folders can easily be accessed from Ubuntu bash.
Windows directories can be found under /mnt/c/Users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/
EX: if you want to access desktop then => /mnt/c/Users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/Desktop
Later I used cp command to copy files from Desktop to Ubuntu like this:
cd /mnt/c/Users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/Desktop
cp filename.ext ~/
~/ => this directly refers to Ubuntu user directory.
Tip: Same thing can be done for moving files from Ubuntu to Windows as well.
This happened to me, because I removed bash and reinstalled it from Windows store.
The work around I used was to create a shortcut of
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\lxss
and pasted it into
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\
Now my applications on Windows (such as Atom) can access project files made from Ubuntu bash.
