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From: Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving house . . . /home
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:13:52
Message-Id: 45154D6F.7010701@vista-express.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving house . . . /home by Daniel Iliev
1 Daniel Iliev wrote:
2 > Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Daniel Iliev wrote:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>> Dale wrote:
8 >>>
9 >>>
10 >>>
11 >>>> Hi,
12 >>>>
13 >>>> I have a new install and I want to move as little as possible to the new
14 >>>> /home partition. I really only want to save my emails and the filters
15 >>>> and nothing else. What do I need to copy to do this? I use Mozilla,
16 >>>> well Seamonkey now, for my email.
17 >>>>
18 >>>> I would even like to loose some of the settings in Mozilla if I can.
19 >>>>
20 >>>> Thanks
21 >>>>
22 >>>> Dale
23 >>>>
24 >>>> :-) :-)
25 >>>>
26 >>>>
27 >>>>
28 >>>>
29 >>> Doesn't "rm -r /new-home/Dale/.mozilla ; cp -a /old-home/Dale/.mozilla
30 >>> /new-home/Dale/" work?
31 >>>
32 >>>
33 >>>
34 >>>
35 >> I'm not sure to be honest. I have this too:
36 >>
37 >>
38 >>
39 >>> root@smoker / # ls -l /home/dale/
40 >>> total 371
41 >>> drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 400 Sep 19 20:20 Desktop
42 >>> drwxrwxr-x 21 dale users 2560 Jan 23 2006 Mail
43 >>> <<< SNIP >>>
44 >>> root@smoker / #
45 >>>
46 >>>
47 >> I wasn't sure if the Mail directory needs to go or not. This install is
48 >> about 3 years old. I used to use Kmail but I'm not sure if this is left
49 >> overs from that or if Seamonkey uses it. I wanted to make sure before I
50 >> did it though.
51 >>
52 >> I also wanted to loose all the Seamonkey, Mozilla, settings because I
53 >> can not get adblock to work anymore. All it ever says is "pending". I
54 >> wanted to keep email for sure and filters !IF! I can. I'll redo the
55 >> filters if I need to.
56 >>
57 >> Won't copying the whole .mozilla directory copy settings and all?
58 >>
59 >> Dale
60 >>
61 >> :-) :-)
62 >>
63 >>
64 > Well, I wrongly supposed I'd like to save all settings. If you don't
65 > want them saved, then I think the way to go is:
66 > 1) delete the .mozilla's dir /home/$USER/.mozilla
67 > 2) Start seamonkey in order to create a fresh home folder
68 > 3) Open seamonkey-mail. >> Edditt >> Account Setting >> Server Settings.
69 > Here you will find the directory under which the mail is saved.
70 > Something like: /home/$USER/.thunderbird/ia8thvk6.default/ (yes, mine
71 > is .thunderbird for obvious reasons ;-))
72 >
73 > 4) In "/old-home/" you'll find a similar directory, where your mails are
74 > stored. Stop seamonkey, copy "old-folder/contents" into the freshh
75 > folder and start seamonkey again.
76 >
77 > The commands should be something like:
78 >
79 > rm -r /new-home/$USER/.mozilla/
80 > start seamonkey, take that "funky" name from the account settings, close
81 > seamonky
82 > cp -a /old-home/$USER/.mozilla/XXXXXXXXXX/*
83 > /new-home/$USER/.mozilla/YYYYYYYYYY/
84 >
85 > HTH
86 >
87 >
88
89 That sounds like a plan. I'll give it a try. It does come up with a
90 funky name for that directory don't it?? O_O
91
92 Thanks
93
94 Dale
95
96 :-) :-) :-)
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