How to copy ~/.kde from old system to new?

[Larry Hartman]

On Sunday 27 April 2008 08:05:58 am D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2008, Larry Hartman wrote:
> > What steps do I need to take? Initially my instincts tell me that I
> > should use the same username.
>
> If you're keeping it in the same family (Debian-based original distro
> Debian-based new distro) then this is about as easy as it gets.  Be sure
> not to format your original /home partition when you install the new OS. 
> If you use the same username(s) you had before (and if you have more than
> one, re-create them in the same order they were in originally,) that is all
> you need to worry about.  You will log in and own your old files, and
> shouldn't normally experience any unusual side effects.
>
> If you change usernames, or create users in a different order, you can run
> into file ownership problems.  Now that I think about it, this could be a
> fairly annoying problem on Ubuntu, because there is no root login by
> default, and if you don't own your own home directory, you might not be
> able to log in to use sudo to change the ownership back to yourself.  There
> are ways around that, but it would be far less complicated just to keep the
> username the same as it was before.
>

So it would be a good idea to consult the system settings and make a list of 
usernames/UIDs and create them in UID order, when I do the reinstall?  I am 
pressing my Staples button.....many thanx to all for clarification.  

When I installed the last time I took the advice from this list to 
create /home on a separate partition, just needed to finish learning what to 
do for reinstall afterwards.


> If you change to a different flavor of distro, the ranges of numbers used
> for userids can vary, so that could be another problem to consider.  The
> first user on a Debian or Ubuntu system is 1000, I think, whereas it used
> to be 500 on Mandrake, I think.
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre