Files from an old drive

[pyrotech91]

I had to install to a new HD because my update to 10.04 didn't go well.
I have access to the file system of my previous install (dolphin)
I have installed Wine.
I run Wine for a password safe program that I have all of my Passwords in.
Can I get the saved password files from my old HD?

[John Drescher]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, pyrotech91 <[email protected]> wrote:

I had to install to a new HD because my update to 10.04 didn't go well.
I have access to the file system of my previous install (dolphin)
I have installed Wine.
I run Wine for a password safe program that I have all of my Passwords in.
Can I get the saved password files from my old HD?

Copy the old wine prefix to you new hard drive. If you want copy the
entire user profile.

John

[pyrotech91]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, pyrotech91 <[email protected]> wrote:

I had to install to a new HD because my update to 10.04 didn't go well.
I have access to the file system of my previous install (dolphin)
I have installed Wine.
I run Wine for a password safe program that I have all of my Passwords in.
Can I get the saved password files from my old HD?

Copy the old wine prefix to you new hard drive. If you want copy the
entire user profile.

John

I'm not sure how to do that

[jorl17]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, pyrotech91 <[email protected]> wrote:

I had to install to a new HD because my update to 10.04 didn't go well.
I have access to the file system of my previous install (dolphin)
I have installed Wine.
I run Wine for a password safe program that I have all of my Passwords in.
Can I get the saved password files from my old HD?

Copy the old wine prefix to you new hard drive. If you want copy the
entire user profile.

John

I'm not sure how to do that

Inside your old home folder, there is another hidden folder called .wine (with the dot included). Copy that folder to your new home folder and you will have backed-up your entire wine info. This does not reinstall Wine, but merely it's prefix (definitions+drive_c...).

Basically you could just:

cd /path_to_old_mounted_drive/home/<username> (or wherever your home folder was)
cp -r.wine ~ (Assuming ~ is currently pointing to your current home directory, which should be the case if you run this from your newly configured account.

Cheers,

Jorl17

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 13:54 -0500, pyrotech91 wrote:

John Drescher wrote:

Copy the old wine prefix to you new hard drive. If you want copy the
entire user profile.

I'm not sure how to do that

The easiest way is to make a tarball ("man tar" if you don't know how to
use tar - its a very useful item in your toolbox) of your entire user
login on your old disk:

cd /old_disk/home
tar cvf /home/user_copy.tar myuser

and then unpack it on the new disk and discard the tarball:

cd /home
tar xvf user_copy.tar
rm user_copy.tar

If everything (programs and your password database) is in the wine
prefix, you can simplify things a little:

cd /old_disk/home/old_user
tar cvf ~/user_copy.tar .wine
cd
tar xvf user_copy.tar
rm user_copy.tar

Tar can take a list of directories to include in the tarball, so I'm
certain you'll be able to work out any variations that you might need
for your particular set-up.


Martin

[pyrotech91]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, pyrotech91 <[email protected]> wrote: Copy the old wine prefix to you new hard drive. If you want copy the
entire user profile.

John

I'm not sure how to do that

Inside your old home folder, there is another hidden folder called .wine (with the dot included). Copy that folder to your new home folder and you will have backed-up your entire wine info. This does not reinstall Wine, but merely it's prefix (definitions+drive_c...).

Basically you could just:

cd /path_to_old_mounted_drive/home/<username> (or wherever your home folder was)
cp -r.wine ~ (Assuming ~ is currently pointing to your current home directory, which should be the case if you run this from your newly configured account.

Cheers,

Jorl17

OK, I've stopped being an idiot.
Thanks for the help.
(panic is a terrible thing)