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| From | kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: wipe and reinstall |
| Date | 2019-01-14 17:21 -0500 |
| Organization | Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) |
| Message-ID | <q1j21u$eco$1@panix2.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <0fmsgf-h6d.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> |
RS Wood <randy@therandymon.com> wrote: >The things I most want to avoid having to reconfigure are: Firefox >bookmarks, passwords, and history; Evolution IMAP, CardDAV and CALDAV >configs, and Cinnamon desktop configs, but those are the exact things that >gave me trouble. I think one of the issues is actually security: passwords >are hashed using a salt that doesn't carry over to the new machine, so >you've got to manually reconnect all the IMAP and DAV configs. This doesn't make sense to me. I regularly do upgrades just keeping /home on a different partition so it's not touched during the upgrade and it is usually pretty seamless. How did you do the backup of the files? Did you use tar or dump or something more evil? >Then, Firefox helpfully starts you out with a "fresh" profile, which takes a >while to reconfigure (I think they want you to use their Firefox sync >service, which in truth would've saved me some hassle - I've begun using it >now - but introduces security questions of its own). This should definitely not be happening, I think you have some files missing or with bad permissions. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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wipe and reinstall RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-13 16:16 -0500
Re: wipe and reinstall Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-01-14 00:17 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-14 00:51 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-01-13 22:08 -0500
Re: wipe and reinstall Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-01-14 09:24 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-01-17 18:44 +0300
Re: wipe and reinstall Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-01-17 11:19 -0500
Re: wipe and reinstall Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-01-17 17:09 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2019-01-14 11:52 -0600
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Re: digital hoarding Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-15 19:32 +0000
Re: digital hoarding Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-01-15 19:57 +0000
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Re: digital hoarding Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-01-15 20:20 +0000
Re: digital hoarding not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-01-15 22:25 +0000
Re: digital hoarding Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-15 22:45 +0000
Re: digital hoarding Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-01-16 04:03 +0000
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Re: digital hoarding Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2019-01-18 15:32 +0200
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Re: digital hoarding Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-28 05:10 +0000
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Re: wipe and reinstall Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-14 13:01 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-01-14 15:32 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-14 15:36 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-15 10:22 +0100
Re: wipe and reinstall Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-15 09:47 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-15 11:13 +0100
Re: wipe and reinstall Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-15 19:42 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-14 11:31 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-01-14 21:52 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-01-15 00:33 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-01-14 12:23 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-01-14 17:21 -0500
Re: wipe and reinstall J <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-16 12:55 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-01-16 14:24 +0000
Re: wipe and reinstall Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-01-17 12:55 +1100
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