Don Myers wrote: > I started with Ubuntu with version 8.10, and have had each version > since then. I generally find it easiest to do a clean install. One > advantage of that is every 6 months I have a complete backup of my > hard drive. The second advantage is it is very easy to do. Each > program has its own hidden file under the home directory, such as > .thunderbird, .mozilla, .filezilla, gimp-2.8, etc. Once the new > install is completed, and you have the programs installed that you > wish from the repository or the ppa, open each one one time to create > the .whatever hidden file. Then simply delete that file and replace it > with the backed up file, and you have all of your settings, e-mail, > bookmarks, server settings for filezille, and everything exactly the > way was. Very easy and very fast. Much, much, much faster than doing a > clean install of Windows.
Why not just have a separate /home partition? That way, you don't have to delete & replace the app files. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
