[Feisty 7.04] System Log doesn't work and question about System Restore

[Mark H. Nichols]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:41 AM, John Toliver wrote:

> Scenario:
> I break break ubuntu somehow but I'm smart enough to hook up the  
> HDD to
> another machine and copy the /home/user folder.  then I wipe the  
> install
> and do it fresh.  then I copy the /home/user folder I backed up and
> overwrite the the newly created /home/user folder.  When I download  
> and
> install thunderbird and open it up for the first time, I will see my
> messages as they were before I crashed the system?

Hijacked thread *and* top-posting.  -2 ... message below my set  
threshold.

*Plonk*

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