Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-24 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David: Thanks so much. Will do. Will back up my /home/sher/.netscape directory in its entirety Thanks again. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Don't copy the cache directory in /home/sher/.netscape. This can be quite large and is not necessary. On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:51, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear David: Thanks so much. Will do. Will back up my /home/sher/.netscape directory in its entirety Thanks again. Benjamin -- Sridhar

[newbie] Saving Netscape settings

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Neville: 1) Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a file and

[newbie] Saving Netscape settings for reinstall

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Neville and friends: Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherman
TECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install Dear friends: I am too embarrased to ask this question but better late than sorry. I have been using Linux for nearly three years and have learned an awful lot, but there is on

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Dave: Thanks so much for the advice! I like your suggestion because even though I have a separate /home partition (and on a separate drive all unto itself), LM72 will not properly install unless I completely reformat everything, i.e both hard drives including /home (see my earlier message

Re: [newbie] Saving Netscape settings for fresh install

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherman
Ben, I wish I could help you there, but I don't know how to export filters, or even if it is possible in Netscape. If you follow the other suggestions, about simply backing up your ~/.netscape directory, then your filters should be in there somewhere :-/ Dave On Tuesday 23 January 2001