Help getting new system setup

[KaIIen]

My new laptop (and my old one) are running 11.04. I have had some trouble getting everything set up on the new system. I tried this first:

Moving you Ubuntu system in 3 easy steps

This resulted with nothing but trouble. I copied files without being root (gksu nautilus) and Ubuntu wouldn't boot. So I wiped it and reinstalled fresh and tried as root. It sort of worked that time, but still had severe issues. Firefox refused to open, etc. So I reinstalled fresh again, and as root have just copied my files into my new home. I am thinking my issues are because this is the first fresh install for me since either 9.10 or 10.04. I have does the live upgrade since.

A few questions here, thanks for any assistance!

1. What do i need to move to new system to have all my saved login and password info for both Firefox and Chrome?

2. Am i able to copy setup info for Evolution? It was a pain to set up before and would like to simply move it somehow.

3. ALL the files I have copied to the new system have a little padlock on the icon. I assume it's because these files were created on my old system with a "different" owner. I Googled to no end and found nothing about that little padlock on the icons...

4. On sire such as this, when using Chrome, there is no word wrap at the end of a line instead of the whole word moving to the next line. It posts ok, but I find this disconcerting to see as I type...

5. I can not get the cap lock to come on at boot. I have it set to "Numlock on at boot" in the bios but Ubuntu chooses to ignore that.

Anything else you guys think would be worth my while to migrate?

THANK you!

[zenwalker]

If your new hdd is at least as large as your old one, just use clonezilla and transfer the whole (including settings) to new hdd, using an external USB device as intermediary on which to store the clone image.

[KaIIen]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

For now, I want to try to just set it up as a new system. My old install was starting to slow down a little and had little errors here and there. It's nice that it's not cluttered up as much and seems more stable.

[irlandes]

Evolution is especially easy. Go to the FILE item in the menu, and click on Backup Settings. It will allow you to backup where you wish, including a flash drive, if it is mounted. (I think.)


It will turn off Evolution while it backs it up, all e-mails, passwords, you name it..

When you have the new distro installed, and Evolution is there, mount the flash drive and go to File, and click on Restore settings, and it will copy it all in, and you may not be able to tell the difference.

One warning. You can restore to a later version of Evolution, but you may not be able to restore from a later version of Evolution to an older one. A while back, I was going to resize my Linux partition, and so backed up the Evolution settings in Kubuntu 10.04 LTS, and restored it into PCLinuxOS. I did some e-mail work on the netbook I had it in. Later, when I found out Kubuntu still worked fine, I backed it up in PCLInuxOS, and tried to restore it in the older distro. It would not do so.

In the end I took the 33 mails I had sent or received, had it export them one at a time as kmail then imported them into the older version.

[ibexslam]

ALL the files I have copied to the new system have a little padlock on the icon.

I've had issues like this before. Files copied from one machine to another, both owned by the same human, but the OSes don't know that. Having the same username on both machines was not the answer, as I recall. Sometimes Linux seems, to me, to be a little too paranoid about letting us get to our files. I've had flash drives, somehow, switch to locked status on all the files.

I'm fixing to do a fresh install with the contents of the previous install's user files and settings (and fonts and whatnot) inserted into the new one. If anybody's got a tip like "copy /home and this, this and this, and check this here box and do this other thing so there are no ownership problems and minimal disruptions," we'd love to see it.

[ibexslam]

In the meantime I'm googling that for myself. If I find something good, I'll post it here.

[jayd512]

To get rid of the padlocks, you'll have to modify the ownership of the files.
Open a terminal, and do this:

sudo chown -R your_username <name_of_the_directory>

[KaIIen]

To get rid of the padlocks, you'll have to modify the ownership of the files.
Open a terminal, and do this:

sudo chown -R your_username <name_of_the_directory>

I did this to my home directory and it worked a charm. Thanks you!