[ubuntu-za] 64 Bit Install

[Charl Wentzel]

On 19/04/2014 11:32, Bill Cairns wrote:
> I have a separate Home partition for all my own stuff (and it is all
> backed up on my server anyway) and I plan on doing a new install and
> not an upgrade.
Yes, definitely keep your separate home partition, especially if you
don't want to loose your application settings and data.  I for example
have 5 email accounts, dropbox, ubuntu one, photos, music and much
more.  If you loose the home partition you'll have to restore all of
that manually.  If you keep your home partition you may need to
reinstall apps that are not default, but once they are installed they'll
pick up the settings you have in your home partition and work as if it
was never uninstalled.

You sometimes do get issues with the desktop not working properly after
an upgrade.  In such cases I simply delete the following directories
from my home directory and reboot:
.gnome2
.gnome2_private
.gconf

This forces ubuntu to configure the default desktop settings.  PS:
always a good idea to rename to 'xxx.bak' instead of deleting, just in
case you need to restore the old settings.  Once everything works, you
can delete the .bak directories.

If you have issues with specific applications, you can often do the same
for them.  Applications often have their own settings directory in your
home directory which start with a dot ('.') to hide them.  So for
example, if you have trouble with Dropbox, you can delete the .dropbox
directory and reboot.  Note however, you'll have to setup the account again.

Hope this helps
Charl