re-install

[Ash Wyllie]

On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 13:32 +0000, Colin Law wrote: 
> On 18 March 2013 11:39, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've just re-installed Ubuntu. Before I started I backed up /home/user
> > to an external drive. I then copied the backup to /home on the new
> > system.
> 
> Did you backup the hidden folders (.local etc)?
> 

> Did you restore the hidden folders?
> 
I did a drag and drop both ways, and all the .folders are in the
new /home/diane folder.

> For future reference, if you install ubuntu over the top of an
> existing ubuntu installation and go through the "something else"
> option in the installer, then select the existing partition to install
> into, but do /not/ select Format for that partition, then Ubuntu will
> be installed over the existing version but will leave /home alone
> (even if it is not a separate partition).
> 
I will remember that, and mark this post as important ;).

> >
> > But evolution and fstop (and others?) behave as if it is a new
> > installation and don't see the data in .evolution and Pictures/Photos.
> 
> You have not said which version you are using, but I believe that
> evolution no longer uses .evolution, but .local/share/evolution and
> .config/evolution.
> 
> Colin
>