Reinstallation and saving the home directory

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Sat Aug 31 21:36:55 UTC 2013


On Saturday 31 August 2013 19:26:55 Wolfgang Romey wrote:
> For the first time I preserverd my home-directory when reinstalling the
> newest PA4. It was quite easy: With dolphin i copied the home-directory to
> a sd-card. Then i reinstalled PA4, enabled my wlan-connection and installed
> dolphin. After copying the old home/mer to the new home/mer my old
> activities came up.
> 
> The last thing i had to do was installing owncloud-client. Then the plasmoid
> for syncing worked again. Perfect.

I'ts good to hear that this works well!

> BTW: For me is the possibility to sync from and to PA4 via onncloud an
> important feature, which should be made more public.

Actually we had planned official support for ownCloud sync for PA4, but time and 
manpower constraints didn't allow us to do it in time. It's still on our to do 
list, though.


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