Please help a newbie with "Failed to intialize HAL!"

[Dom Latter]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 16:55:07 Paul Williams wrote:

> Can anybody help me? Please don't take any knowledge for granted, but
> rather tell me exactly what I should type. Many thanks

As Wawrzek says, I think you'll find your files somewhere inside /home/user.
(Yes, that literally is user, not a username such as, say, paul).

If you use the "ls -l" command you get a longer listing, which shows file
sizes and other useful info, like this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 dom dom   240 2007-02-20 01:00 styles
-rw-r--r-- 1 dom dom  4799 2008-01-22 14:14 terms.php
The lines beginning with  a 'd' are directories (i.e. folders in Windows 
speak).

Having found your Documents folder / directory, do something like this:
"mkdir /media/backup" 
"cp -r /home/user/Documents /media/backup"