Moving data between 2 PCs

[Orjan Sinclair]

Gunner wrote:
> try sudo chown  -R   newuser  .kmaildirectory
>
> I think sudo chown -R newID .kmaildirectory will also do the trick
>
>
> because your login NAME is the same does not necessarily mean that you 
> have
> the correct id number. Try to see if your id number in
> cat /etc/passwd | grep sinclair
> gives the same number. If not then you have the answer there.
>
> /gunner
>  
>
> 2006/10/10, Orjan Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com 
> <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Gunner wrote:
>     >
>     > 2006/10/10, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com
>     <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto: o.sinclair at gmail.com <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>>>:
>     >
>     >     Thing drives me round the bend. I am trying to do this using
>     a USB
>     >     flash memory and not LAN
>     >
>     >
>     > well well, not quite easy to guess from your first question..
>     >
>     >
>     >     or easily moved harddisk etc. as I am on 2 laptops. And
>     rsync gave
>     >     nothing (or I have not correctly figured out recursive - it
>     LOOKED
>     >     like it copied but the files are not there)
>     >
>     >
>     > perhaps you will let us in on, what you are doing, then it is
>     easier
>     > to find out what is wrong.
>     > for example:
>     > which rsync command
>     > and then what ls command (if any (or you are using konqueror )
>     >
>     > best greetings
>     > gunner
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     As always - help is most appreciated. What I am trying to do is to
>     move
>     all my Kmail/Kontact and Thunderbird mail from an existing laptop
>     to the
>     new one. They are not connected via LAN or something so I am
>     trying to
>     use a USB flash to move the data.  Without any other comparisons in
>     WinXP I would simply use some app to sync the involved directories
>     from
>     OldPC to USB, then from USB to NewPC.
>
>     Trying the same with Krusader or Konq (once you have it show the
>     hidden
>     directories under /home/sinclair) gives you all sorts of problems
>     as the
>     permissions from OldPC (sinclair is owner, group etc etc) will change
>     when you try to move it to NewPC. Owner is still sinclair but
>     group has
>     no rights and other items such as rwx will change.
>
>     Try to do as root or sudo does not help one bit as owner then becomes
>     root... ha ha.
>
>     Is there really no reasonably simple way to copy from 1 PC to another
>     via removable media?? And keep ownership and rwx permissions as
>     original???
>
>     Sinclair - somewhat frustrated as time goes and I am not productive...
>
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thanks for the ideas. I finally managed using Ark and quite a bit of 
fiddling with ownership of the created archive file...

THIS is something Linux has to work on IMHO cause honestly - you get a 
new PC now and then and not everyone has access to x disks or LAN or 
bandwidth

Sinclair