On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:40 +0200, Joep Blom wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:19 +0200, Joep Blom wrote: > > > > > >>Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 09:23 -0400, Graham Campbell wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:50 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>hi joep, > >>>>> > >>>>>Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Joep Blom: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>Does this work moving from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Yes. I just did this a couple of weeks ago from a Pentium IV to an > >>>Athlon 64 with no problems. In fact I backed up my entire home directory > >>>and restored it, but it amounts to the same thing. > >>> > >>>poc > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Patrick, > >>I am curious why you did it. I only saved the directories I made and the > >>evolution and gnome directories. The other .xxx directories must be > >>rebuild for the 64-bit applications and will anyway be rebuild when you > >>install them(overwriting then existing ones). > >> > >> > > > >I don't know what you mean by .xxx directories. In any case, I was > >moving everything to a new machine, so I backed up my home dir on the > >old one and restored it on the new one. What so you find strange about > >that? > > > >poc > > > > > > > I mean directories like: > .adobe; .aspell.en.prepl;.audacity;.bash_history, etc ,etc. > They normally are build again when you install the related programs and > moreover they are often different when you change platform. > Joep
a) I don't want to bother remembering which to back up and which not, and it doesn't do any harm so I do them all. I prefer a little inefficiency in a once-every-few-years operation to the risk of making a mistake. b) In at least one case (.bash_history) I'm fairly sure you're wrong. It's a text file, so why should it matter what machine architecture I have? c) In no case I know of does reinstalling a package cause the user's local data to be lost. There may of course be exceptions, but the general practice is to leave user-preference data alone except possibly for automatically converting to a new format when versions change. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
