Restoring home after change to 64 bit.

[Colin Law]

On 17 October 2014 14:01, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:10:31 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> I am getting a new PC to replace one running 14.04 32 bit. I plan to
>> install 64 bit. If I copy my home folder across to the new machine after
>> install should all be well or will the fact that I am changing to 64 bit
>> cause problems?
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> Data files (eg documents, images, A/V files, etc.) should not matter. If you
> have *compiled* programs in your home directory tree, they may or may not work
> (depending on if you install 32-bit support libraries).  If these where
> compiled from source, they can/should be recompiled.

Thanks all, I had hoped that would be the answer.  I had already
assumed it would be a good plan to recompile anything I have compiled
(which is not much).

Unfortunately the new machine, which should have arrived today, has
not, so I may not be able to try till after the weekend :(

Cheers

Colin

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