On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are running KDE, then all your KDE specific settings are under the > .kde directory (i.e. /home/myuser/.kde). > Amarok for example lives under here, including all of my cached podcasts (some of the music based ones I actually want to listen to more than once).
> On 10-09-21 04:43 PM, Mark Carlson wrote: <snip> >> >> If I lost all of my dot-files, I'd be screwed! Amen to that. I would not delete any of the dot-files in the home directory unless you were solving a specific problem. .vimrc, .screenrc, and .bashrc are the first things I copy *in* to a new install. >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Rick Johnson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ... and i suggest you rm all hidden files and directories in /home/$user. >>> The old configs and permissions can lead to trouble and should be >>> re-created >>> by the new install. >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Richard Carter<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Shawn, >>>> >>>> Thanks for your reply. Judging from what you wrote I believe I have >>>> just >>>> a "typical desktop/workstation" with no special features of the type you >>>> mention. So I guess I'll copy over just /home. >>>> >>>> Robin >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Shawn<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You haven't given us enough information. If this is a typical >>>>> desktop/workstation, then copying /home may be all you need to do. >>>>> >>>>> But, if you have a special setup, there may be more. For instance, if >>>>> you have setup Apache on the old box for development purposes, you may >>>>> want >>>>> to move over your customizations (if any) for Apache. If you have set >>>>> up >>>>> revision control, you would need to explore how to migrate your >>>>> repositories, etc. >>>>> >>>>> In my case, I *do* have those sort of specialized setups. But when I >>>>> upgrade or install a new box, I just recreate them as needed - it only >>>>> takes >>>>> a few minutes, and helps keep me in practice and the knowledge fresh. >>>>> :) >>>>> >>>>> HTH. >>>>> >>>>> Shawn >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 10-09-20 11:31 AM, Richard Carter wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have 2 desk top PCs both with AMD64 processors: "new" with AMD >>>>>> Athlon >>>>>> II X4 635 and no OS, "old" with AMD Athlon 64 2800+ and debian 5. I'm >>>>>> going to install debian 5 for AMD on "new" and I'm usure about which >>>>>> files from "old" I should copy over to "new". I'll certainly copy >>>>>> /home >>>>>> but what about /etc, /var and /usr? >>>>>> >>>>>> Robin >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
