On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > I'm still a little confused as to why so many users seem to feel the > need to backup and restore their personal data just to upgrade their > operating system in place. Backing up of course is a prudent safety > measure, but if the upgrade goes smoothly there should be no need to > restore the backup. > > Are there actually distro installers that don't allow you to upgrade > without nuking your home directory, or do some installers not make > that > option clear enough, or am I just misunderstanding the problem?
Matthew, I am a Fedora user. Some people, including me, choose to do a fresh install instead of an upgrade in place. I do this every 2 or 3 releases just to clean out the old release remnants that invariably get left on the system, including dot directories in my home directory. Since I follow this list I see the posts of problems and know to use the Evolution backup/import. Thanks to everybody who contributes to the Evolution project. Dan -- ==================================================================== Dan Brenner They keep me in a cage and [email protected] give me hardware to play with. ==================================================================== _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
