Re: [kde-linux] restoring from backup in Konqueror (and Firefox on KDE)

Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Thursday 27 March 2008, david wrote:

Dale wrote:

When I copy user generated files, I always use the -a option since it
retains all file settings including permission, ownership, group etc
etc. You may want to check who owns the files and what group owns
them. I suspect one or both of those has changed.

I just moved my wife's /home folder from her dying PCLinuxOS laptop to
her new KUbuntu laptop - just tarred up the folder, untarred it onto her
laptop, ran chown to reset the ownerships - and everything came over
just fine. Mail (Thunderbird), Firefox, Konqueror, some (not all)
OpenOffice settings, desktop preferences and links, wallpaper, Kopete
settings, etc.


In my experience using tar is enough, i.e. the ownership is correctly set to
the user running the extraction.

Cheers,
Kevin


True, just use the -p option and it will keep the same owner and group
settings. I usually just copy them but a lot of people use tar. Not a
thing wrong with that when it works for ya. ;-)

Dale

:-) :-)
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