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.
> 
> 
I re-installed 10.04, and somethings are working. /home/diane is all
there. Firefox has its bookmarks back.

Evolution hasn't found its settings as yet. Outside of a dozen contacts
that is not a real problem. Her email is primarily web based. The only
reason for evolution is to work with fspot.

Fspot is the main issue. All her old pictures are
in /home/diane/Pictures/Photos. I can see them there. But fspot does
not. Where the tags are located is another question. I had assumed that
they would be near the photos somewhere in /home. 

If I can make fspot to work as it did in the before I re-installed 10.04
all will be well.

By the way, I did the re-install because her computer was crashing
several times a day with Ubuntu complaining about screen, graphics card
and input settings. I won't know for a while if this worked, but she ran
10.04 for a long time without a problem. What happened I don't know.
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