vukodlak75
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Hi all. I've been trying out quite a few of Linux Distros (past 4 months) in VMWare on Windows. I've finally decided to install Ubuntu Studio on my workstation as the only OS. I had Ubuntu Studio installed in a VM and want to move my home folder from the VM to the real workstation to preserve some settings for the applications (Thunderbird, Firefox, PAN, etc.).
I've tried to just move the thunderbird folder (.mozilla folder) and when I opened up thunderbird all my email accounts were there (cool) but my extensions (add ons) were not working. I'm assuming permissions?
Anyone have experience in moving these type of folders from one workstation to another? If so, is there anything I need to know that would ease the migration?
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PetePuma
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Arlington, VA | If it's just a few apps, it's probably easier to just set them up again. As you're finding, there is not much consistency in where various things are stored among the different distributions. |
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Sir MeowMix III
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vukodlak75 
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OP is running Ubuntu Studio in the VM as well as the main PC.
tar-gzip your home directory, transfer it over, then untar-gunzip it.
tar --create --file=/home/`whoami`.tgz --gzip /home/`whoami`
Then, transfer /home/`whoami`.tgz to the non-VM machine, and:
tar -zxvf `whoami`.tgz
This assumes your username is the same on both systems, if not, modify to suit.
A "chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` /home/`whoami`" would fix any ownership issues. |
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PetePuma
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Arlington, VA | True. I misread what he wanted to do -- since it's the same base OS, you should be able to take the whole home dir and restore it as MeowMix said. |
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vukodlak75
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Beachwood, OH
clubs: | Worked great, thanks you two  . |
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