[clug] what is best way to migrate a whole computer's content to another?

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 16:45:30 MST 2012


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest taking the opportunity to eliminate the accumulated cruft
> from the old machine and only copy across the things that you actually
> need. I'm pretty sure that we all end up with stuff that we don't
> really need or want lurking on machines that we've used for a few
> years.

True, but it can be entertaining to traverse a directory structure
like $HOME/old-home/Desktop/oldhome-2/tmp/old-home-3-what-is-this/foo
to find something  ;-)

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Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


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