Re: [Evolution] directories to save for update

[Joep Blom <jlblom neuroweave nl>]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:19 +0200, Joep Blom wrote:
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> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> > > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 09:23 -0400, Graham Campbell wrote:
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> > > > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:50 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
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> > > > > hi joep,
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> > > > > Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Joep Blom:
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> > > > Does this work moving from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system? 
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> > > Yes. I just did this a couple of weeks ago from a Pentium IV to an
> > > Athlon 64 with no problems. In fact I backed up my entire home directory
> > > and restored it, but it amounts to the same thing.
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> > > poc
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> > Patrick,
> > I am curious why you did it. I only saved the directories I made and the 
> > evolution and gnome directories. The other .xxx directories must be 
> > rebuild for the 64-bit applications and will anyway be rebuild when you 
> > install them(overwriting then existing ones).
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> I don't know what you mean by .xxx directories. In any case, I was
> moving everything to a new machine, so I backed up my home dir on the
> old one and restored it on the new one. What so you find strange about
> that?
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> poc
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I mean directories like:
.adobe; .aspell.en.prepl;.audacity;.bash_history, etc ,etc.
They normally are build again when you install the related programs and 
moreover they are often different when you change platform.
Joep