Re: [gentoo-user] Moving house . . . /home

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Dale wrote:
> Daniel Iliev wrote:
>   
>> Dale wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a new install and I want to move as little as possible to the new
>>> /home partition.  I really only want to save my emails and the filters
>>> and nothing else.  What do I need to copy to do this?  I use Mozilla,
>>> well Seamonkey now, for my email.
>>>
>>> I would even like to loose some of the settings in Mozilla if I can.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> Doesn't "rm -r /new-home/Dale/.mozilla ; cp -a /old-home/Dale/.mozilla
>> /new-home/Dale/" work?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> I'm not sure to be honest.  I have this too:
>
>   
>> root@smoker / # ls -l /home/dale/
>> total 371
>> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users   400 Sep 19 20:20 Desktop
>> drwxrwxr-x 21 dale users  2560 Jan 23  2006 Mail
>> <<< SNIP >>>
>> root@smoker / #
>>     
> I wasn't sure if the Mail directory needs to go or not.  This install is
> about 3 years old.  I used to use Kmail but I'm not sure if this is left
> overs from that or if Seamonkey uses it.  I wanted to make sure before I
> did it though.
>
> I also wanted to loose all the Seamonkey, Mozilla, settings because I
> can not get adblock to work anymore.  All it ever says is "pending".  I
> wanted to keep email for sure and filters !IF! I can.  I'll redo the
> filters if I need to.
>
> Won't copying the whole .mozilla directory copy settings and all? 
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>   
Well, I wrongly supposed I'd like to save all settings. If you don't
want them saved, then I think the way to go is:
1) delete the .mozilla's dir /home/$USER/.mozilla
2) Start seamonkey in order to create a fresh home folder
3) Open seamonkey-mail. >> Edditt >> Account Setting >> Server Settings.
Here you will find the directory under which the mail is saved.
Something like: /home/$USER/.thunderbird/ia8thvk6.default/   (yes, mine
is .thunderbird for obvious  reasons ;-))

4) In "/old-home/" you'll find a similar directory, where your mails are
stored. Stop seamonkey, copy "old-folder/contents" into the freshh
folder and start seamonkey again.

The commands should be something like:

rm -r /new-home/$USER/.mozilla/
start seamonkey, take that "funky" name from the account settings, close
seamonky
cp -a /old-home/$USER/.mozilla/XXXXXXXXXX/*
/new-home/$USER/.mozilla/YYYYYYYYYY/

HTH

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel


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