Am Dienstag 15 Juni 2010 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > I'm getting a new computer in the next few days and, of course, I need > to move my data from the old to the new one. > > In the past, I have simply copied copied ~/.kde, but I hope to find > another way, this time. Over the years, quite a bit of cruft has > accumulated in that directory and I'd like to get rid of that. Besides, > KDE has grown beyond its own directory and puts data in, e.g., ~/.local. > -- Is the safest solution to copy /home in its entirety and sort out the > cruft manually? > > Also, as I'm moving from 32-bit to 64-bit, I'm concerned if all data > formats are compatible? Specifically regarding data stored in Akonadi's > MySQL and Virtuoso databases (are there SQLite databases around, too?).
Interestingly I've done the very same just 3 days ago (old installation was years old, new installation is 64-bit). For KDE things, there is http://kamion2.sourceforge.net/ but I don't know how well it works. I didn't use it because I also had to migrate other settings (.ssh, .gnupg, .bash*, etc.), so I simply manually checked everything in .local, .config and .kde and copied over everything that looked migration- worthy. That took less than an hour, and the results are pretty good. Important apps like kontact/kmail/akregator/knode, konqueror, amarok all work like before, and I got rid of a lot of old cruft. Of course I still have a copy of *all* old files around in case I missed something. Cheers, Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
