1/2/2013 11:24 PM, Walter Bright пишет:
On 1/2/2013 11:09 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
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I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that
the
installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one.
Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will always happen.
Until I abandoned all use of Ubuntu, I had never had an upgrade crash
that didn't correct itself on appropriate rerun. You are the only person
I know that had a total trashing due to installer fail.
Reinstalling from scratch does not take a whole day. 2 hours maybe.
It does when you don't remember what goes in the host file, what you had
installed, redoing all the ssh keys, etc. It also deleted all my virtual
boxes, I never did figure out how to get them working again. I simply
gave up on virtual boxes as more trouble than they're worth.
While I've found them to be quite easy to migrate and use. If virtual
hard disk can be found/recovered you don't need the settings and other
crap as these are re-created in matter of minutes. There are even
pre-constructed images of various OS+software stack to be found on the web.
P.S. I like calendar programs, but on Windows and Ubuntu, upgrading the
OS inevitably deletes the calendar database. None of those frackin'
calendar programs ever deign to tell me where they store their frackin'
database, so I can back it up. I really, really don't understand mail
and calendar programs that make it difficult to back up the data. I quit
using Outlook Express because it stored the mail database in a hidden
directory. WTF? Thunderbird is better, but not much.
On latest Windows OS-es almost everything is in AppData\Roaming +
AppData\Roaming in \Users directory. Just copying them over and
reinstalling the apps seems to work (I only tried Thunderbird and couple
of others though).
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Dmitry Olshansky
