Hi,<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/08/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Greenwood</b> <<a href="mailto:neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com">neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">You can definitely copy home with no ill-effects. </blockquote>
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<div>That raises an interesting point. Given that a whole bunch of apps now write</div>
<div>a ".something" file into /home/$USER, what's the best way to copy an old</div>
<div>/home directory to a new machine (I mean which command line switches for</div>
<div>a 'cp' or 'tar' command)? </div>
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<div>Copying the documents, downloads etc. is easy enough, but couldn't it be </div>
<div>risky to just copy all the 'dot' files willy-nilly? .bashrc might come through</div>
<div>unscathed, but stuff like Thunderbird probably won't (I've been there!)</div>
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<div>I'd be tempted to back up all the 'dot' (hidden) files separately from the 'normal' files</div>
<div>and directories, and copy them (or the relevant bits) to the new install as </div>
<div>required. Am I being paranoid? </div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Glenn.</div>
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