re-install

[Ash Wyllie]

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 13:38 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 20 March 2013 13:26, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I installed 10.04 _then_ copied /home/diane. Should I do it the other
> > way around?
> 
> Yes, that's right. So long as the user is the first & only one on the
> system (which is pretty much the norm these days) and has the same
> username (so it looks in /home/{whoever}) then all your old settings
> should get picked up.
> 
> 
> > I get diane:x1000:1000:...
> >
> > The old installation was a single user system, as is this one.
> 
> Perfect.
> 
> > Whether the old number was the same as this one, I don't know. Is there
> > a way to find out?
> 
> 1000 is the first - numbers below 1000 are reserved for system
> accounts - so this looks fine.
> 
Would the user number be in a file, such as .evolution/something
or .mozilla/something? It would be interesting to find out.
> 
> 
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