Cloning, used to be: Re: deleting firefox 10.02 from kpackagekit in k10.10 mm

[Perry]

Ray wrote:
[snip]
> >> k10.10 mm, after downloaded and installed it always came back
> >> crashing, so I clonned back to my backup disc k
[snip]
> >> ray
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Perry wrote:
> > O.T.  any tips for cloning back (is it necessary to delete files of
sorry, the "of" should have been an "or"
> > overwriting from
> > the backup is enough ?)
> 

> don't understand question
>  "O.T.  any tips for cloning back (is it necessary to delete files of
> overwriting from
> the backup is enough ?)"
> 
> ray
> ps not sure about this marking

Well, I expected some tips on this "cloning".
_Whiping everything clean before using the backup would surely work
but is quite drastic. 
_Of c ourse you could leave untouched your personal documents,
photos, and so on ; it's better not to delete and restore them.
_I fear (not sure) that just overwriting with the backup-files may cause problems,
for instance if a new app uses an existing config file.


Perry
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