On Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:07:23 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> - Presumably the method of copying was some GUI drag and drop?
Yes. I originally wanted to use Redo Backup, but that needs a location for
the data.
> - Do you recall why it said one or two files couldn't be copied? Even
> if they're not important, it still seems odd.
The messages didn't make much sense to me. In one case copying a text file
came up with 'Not enough disc space' !!!! It had around 20 bytes and copied
perfectly later. The rest seemed to be related to a large dump of development
data which included the contents of a Raspberry Pi SDCard; it was barfing at
trying to copy /dev/tty1 etc.
> - You copied /home/terry from the old disk into /home/terry on a live,
> running, system whilst logged in as terry?
Initially I tried to do it from a live disc. That was my first mistake,
because everything ended up as being owned by root and the desktop would not
run properly. That was when I made my second mistake. What I should have
done is to put the old disk back until I could get a suitable temporary
storage solution. What I actually did was to re-install Kubuntu from the
19.10 disc and then drag the data across again.
> - You still have the old disk unaltered so in theory the wallet is safe
> and booting from that disk would regain access?
It might not (see above). I haven't really got time to try it until after the
weekend because I'm going 'up North' tomorrow morning and today is pretty much
booked up.
BTW. I can now get into email on this machine, but I had to do it by dredging
my memory for passwords and starting a new KWallet wallet.
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