tar cvfz username.tgz /home/username the same command can be used on any directory. You might what to move/rename the .gnome folders and restart and see if the previous settings from those directories are the cause of the problem. HTH. On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 16:54 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my FC4 to FC5 as soon as FC5 was released, as some of you > may know i de-installed Gnome by mistake, now it is installed again, > but i see some problems on it, also some another problems. > > I would like to reinstall a complete new instalation, but i do not > want to loose my work. > > I think i will have to keep my home and the etc directories. > any other i need to keep? > > the most important things for me are my thunderbird emails, only > backing up my home directory with the .thunderbird directory off > course is all i need? > > thanks in advance for your comments, > > ah! another question, when FC6 is going to be released? maybe I should > wait till then to make a clean instalation of FC6? > > thanks. > > > -- > Guillermo Garron > (Using FC5, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) >
