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On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 13:14 +0100, Julian Hall wrote: > Mark Jose wrote: > > I back up my personal data in the home directory > > and install the new version freshly - then put the backed up data back. > Alternatively mount / and /home on separate partitions. That way even > if the whole OS goes down the swannee your personal data is safe. I am in the process of transferring stuff from one old computer to a new one with a different distro. I would have liked to set up a /home partition, but found the setup steps difficult to interpret as there seemed to be a jump in expertise needed to do this. Is there a way I can do this now having installed Ubuntu 7.04 before I put my backed up stuff from SuSE 10.0 on the new one? QTParted is installed and I have taken a look in it. It would be nice to take my evolution data as well as I have backed up .evolution as being in /home/james/. If I can do this, should I install evolution and copy the relevant files over? I also want to try Thunderbird and would like to import the database of addresses and the saved emails, though I can always keep the old computer available to dig out any I actually need. james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html