From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GR9CR-0007Yg-Qm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:13:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8NFCdFq013914; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:12:39 GMT Received: from mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (mxo1.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8NF6ej4025742 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:06:40 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (host-207-68-225-84.vista-express.com [207.68.225.84]) by mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3E431427F for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:06:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <45154D6F.7010701@vista-express.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:06:23 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060906 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving house . . . /home References: <4514E778.8020305@vista-express.com> <45152D81.9090908@ilievnet.com> <4515472B.2010509@vista-express.com> <45154BB2.6050609@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <45154BB2.6050609@ilievnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 36a9bd9c-3527-4d90-89e1-c1dda2e42111 X-Archives-Hash: 689a3348da7c6ec3c59a842ef90dd23f Daniel Iliev wrote: > 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 > > That sounds like a plan. I'll give it a try. It does come up with a funky name for that directory don't it?? O_O Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list