[nzlug] Distromove

[Howard]

on 30/03/2007 2:11 p.m. Dirk Pilat wrote:
>SNIP
 > I am upgrading the family to a used Athlon boxed with
> a snzzy graphics card, etc.
> 
> Now the query: this machine has 5 accounts with all of the personal data 
> on KDE specific apps. The next distro is supposed to be Kubuntu (because 
> of the family's familiarity with KDE). What would be the best way of 
> transferring the personal data (mail archives and contacts)? Pop every 
> home directory on a USB stick and pray for backwards compability??

Hi Dirk

I did a similar thing recently (new distro onto existing desktop).  I 
found a few inconsistencies between some apps in their user data storage 
location, e.g. /home/thunderbird vs /home/mozilla-thunderbird.

No big deal though, but I wimped out and didn't just remount /home on 
the new box as I planned... I just copied the /home data (and /etc data) 
for the apps I needed, and checked each in turn to ensure no probs.

I made sure UIDs matched first.

Cheers
H