Question fresh install

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

You may not need to reinstall. It sounds like much of your problem is with user configuration rather than system configuration. 


Try creating a new user account and see whether it runs fast. If it does, you could migrate individual application config files to the new account (changing owner/group names) until you figure out what's causing the slowdown. 


Back up older/unused Kontact data?? 


You might also check to see whether you have really large log files that could be purged? 


Just some thoughts. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgi Kourtev" <gkourtev at gmail.com> 
To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:55:46 PM 
Subject: Question fresh install 

Dear all, 

I have a production machine that was my first-ever 100% linux machine. I 
started with Kubuntu 8.04 and during the past two years I have just upgraded 
the OS and now I run with 10.04.1., KDE 4.5.1. 

All is fine but due to the fact that this was my 'first-ever-machine' with linux 
(now my whole office with 7 PCs is with Kubuntu), I was using it to experiment 
everything that I wanted to try. As I am not expert, I found out that after 
two years it started to work rather slow. For example, the login takes about 
1,5-2 minutes, after opening Kontact, I need to wait for about 5-8 minutes for 
some disk-work that blocks everything, etc. 

So I decided to do a fresh install soon after 10.10 is available with /home on 
a separate partition. My question is what should I do to preserve all my work 
on that machine (which is my primary office production machine)? I do back-ups 
every week. It is obvious that I will need to copy back all files from my 
Documents, Pictures and all the rest visible directories under /home. Also to 
follow some of the instruction to migrate my mails/addresses/calendar entries 
into the new install. 

What else? Any advice that will make my life easier is appreciated. 

Many thanks, 
gk 

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