How to collect Client Saved Job in Linux

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Client Saved Job files in Linux are located in /var/spool/cups folder.

To reach them one should do the following:

  1. Open the Terminal and copy /var/spool/cups to any place where the current user has access (e.g., Desktop of the current user):
    sudo cp -r /var/spool/cups/ ~/Desktop

  2. Set '777' permissions to the copied 'cups' folder:
    sudo chmod -R 777 ~/Desktop/cups


     
  3. Open the copied folder and verify that there are some files named like "d00006-001" in it:
  4. Rename them adding .pdf extension:
  5. Open them using installed PDF viewer application or copy somewhere for further investigations.

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