On 12/25/2009 03:54 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Thanks for all your answers. I tested the no-symlinks-are-used option, > by merely mounting my new HDD into /home/merciadriluca/. It worked, > but not as much as I wanted. After being logged, my > /home/merciadriluca/'s content was the content of the new HDD, but I > was really deceived to lose all my preferences, /i.e./ wallpaper, > menus, shortcuts, applets (I mean `panel apps'), etc. > > > I then re-switched back to my old folder/directory, that I had > carefully renamed, i.e. > > # mv merciadriluca merciadriluca.bak > > before any attempt. After some adventures, I am back, actually safe > and sound, but at the same state as before. > > There is something that I do not understand at all. Why are all my > shortcuts, prefs., etc., okay now, after having re-switched back to my > /home/merciadriluca/, when /home/merciadriluca/ was actually exactly the > content of /dev/sdc5 (which was mounted in /home/merciadriluca/, as > explained before), where /dev/sdc5 has the same content as > /home/merciadriluca/?
Your preferences may be in "hidden" directories, directories whose name starts with a period. ls -a will show them. Did the method you used to copy your home directory contents copy everything? cp *.* will not copy everything, in fact it misses a great deal. Appropriate switches must be used with cp to copy everything. Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
