Aftermath after re-install update antiX and (to same or new PC)

[Member Robin]

If you have to reinstall antiX for some reason from ISO you’ll notice much work will have to be done until basic things like email are back to normal.

Probably, when upgrading to a new antiX version from ISO it is not a good idea to keep (or copy) complete ./home folder from previous installation, since multiple version mismatches of all the config files living there are to be expected. Also some program specific files need to be treated one by one, following the upgrade instructions of the respective program rather than copying the old files 1:1 to the new version.

Part 1:
Claws Mail.

In order to all emails received and sent as well as all existing email account setup from an old antiX installation to a new one (e.g. on a different PC) some steps are to be observed:

1.) Copy complete the following folders recursively to the new antiX system, matching your email account names assigned by claws mail:

   ~/.claws-mail
   ~/<account.name-1>
   ~/<account.name-2>
   ...

(You need to preserve/adapt ownership while copying. You need to preserve permissions of all files and folders while copying)

Start Claws-Mail. Everything from your old system should be present and usable immediately.

2.) In case you have used use S/MIME encryption (see Claws-Mail email encryption thread) you will notice existing sent or received encrypted emails are not readable on the new system.
From claws-mail menu bar „Configuration” choose „Plugins and Addons”, activate the plugins

       PGP/core
       PGP/inline
       PGP/MIME
       S/MIME

Accept and close claws-mail

Additionally copy the complete folder recursively to the fresh antiX system (Don’t apply this when you already have created a gpg key on the new system, since it will get lost):

    ~/.gnupg

(Again, you need to preserve/adapt ownership while copying. You need to preserve permissions of all files and folders while copying)

After restart of claws-mail all old encrypted emails should be readable again immediately.

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General hint: Don’t use samba / connectshare for file copy here, it will remove/change ownership and permissions while transferring. If using an USB stick for transfer it must be formatted ext4. Don’t use fat/fat32/exfat formatted file systems for transfer, it will remove/change ownership and permissions.

As a safe alternative transfer method you can use the scp command in console window:

  scp -rp ~/.claws-mail <user@host:path>
  scp -rp ~/<account.name> <user@host:path>
  scp -rp ~/.gpg <user@host:path>

(this will transfer all files via SSH to the target PC)

Also you can simply copy the folders in zzzFM by drag and drop (as long neither source nor target are remote) if both file systems are formatted to ext4 (ext2 and ext3 should be fine also).

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[Member PPC]

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Nice thread Robin. I was going to create a new thread, about how to migrate stuff from my old partition with antiX 19 to the new antiX 22 partition I was forced to create (because my “new” computer refused to work with the antiX 19 I had installed in the hd that was refurbished from my old computer).
The same applies when you want to sync stuff between your old and new computers, or simply having the same setup across several computers:

Migrating your “Thunderbird” e-mail accounts to a brand new computer/partition:
On the computer/partition that has your original thunderbird data go to ~/.thunderbird – it’s where all it’s data is stored in Linux [you can type or copy that path to your File Manager to access it]. You can backup those folders and files to a thumb-drive or to a new partition (you can compress them, for example, to a zip file, etc). If you want to access all that data on a new computer/partition: to to that same folder, on the second PC you want to use your accounts and make sure thunderbird is not running, then delete everything in that folder – BE CAREFUL: DELETE THE FOLDERS IN THE COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE YOUR THUNDERBIRD SETUP!!! (ideally, back the data up before doing this)– just copy the folders and files you had on your original computer to your new computer. When you start thunderbird there, you’ll have the same exact stuff you had in your original computer!

Migrating your “Firefox / Firefox-esr / Seamonkey” data to a brand new computer/partition:
On the computer/partition that has your original browser(s) go to ~/.mozilla – it’s where all it’s data is stored in Linux [you can type or copy that path to your File Manager to access it]. You can backup those folders and files to a thumb-drive or to a new partition (you can compress them, for example, to a zip file, etc). If you want to access all that data on a new computer/partition: to to that same folder, on the second PC you want to use your accounts and make sure your browser(s) are not running, then delete everything in that folder –BE CAREFUL: DELETE THE FOLDERS IN THE COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE YOUR BROWSER(S) SETUP!!! (ideally back the data up before doing this)– just copy the folders and files you had on your original computer to your new computer. When you start your browser there, you’ll have the same exact stuff you had in your original computer (bookmarks, passwords, extensions, etc)!

• This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by PPC.

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