re-install [fixed]

[Ash Wyllie]

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 14:35 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On 20 March 2013 14:29, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 20 March 2013 13:56, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Would the user number be in a file, such as .evolution/something
> >> or .mozilla/something? It would be interesting to find out.
> >
> > In a terminal the command
> > id
> > or
> > id username
> > will show the uid and other information for the current or specified user.
> >
> > They are stored in /etc/passwd so
> > cat /etc/passwd
> > will show it.
> 
> Perhaps I misunderstood the question, if you wonder how evolution gets
> its information it will look in the configuration files (which are no
> longer in .evolution but are in .local/share/evolution) in the logged
> on users home directory.  The command
> echo ~
> will show you which directory that is.
> 
> Colin
> 
> >
> > Colin
> 
I have got Diane's system working again. Re-installing the OS after
restoring /home did most of the work.

evolution: by moving pieces of the backup into .evolution I got back	
	everything but the contact list, which wasn't very big.
	future- use evolution backup and restore to create an archive.

firefox: I copied .mozilla to /home/diane I got back her settings.
	future- we are now using mozilla's sync to store her settings.

f-spot: Colin's reply made me take a close look at /home/user and
	hidden files. Lurking in .config is f-spot, and that is
	where f-spot keeps its information. When I restored that 
	folder f-spot was able to match tags to photos. It did take
	a while though.
	future- I hope I will remember what I did and won't have to
	go through this again.
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