[Novalug] Goof with external hard drive --

Beartooth beartooth at Beartooth.Info
Mon Dec 21 11:50:20 EST 2009


 	-- at least I suppose it must be some goof of mine.

 	I plugged an external USB hard drive into my old Dell 
server, turned it on, and managed to get the .wine folder in my 
home directory copied into it. This seemed a great victory, 
because I had just used Garmin's MapSource software on the Dell 
to download a couple hundred waypoints.

 	I got everything unmounted from the Fedora 11 Dell. (That 
took a while, since it had odd bits hiding in odd places; and at 
the very end I had to get rid of a couple things by powering the 
external drive down.)

 	Then I plugged the drive into a T42 Thinkpad which was 
sitting there, booted up and running Fedora 12, with MapSource 
already installed; started it up again; and it automounted the 
whole shebang.

 	I found the .wine file on the external drive, opened my 
home folder on the thinkpad, and dragged & dropped one .wine 
folder onto the other -- making very sure I did that the right 
way round.

 	It took a while, and copied in a lot of files; no mention 
of any merging.

 	Then I launched MapSource again. No waypoints.

 	I logged out and back in. No waypoints.

 	I rebooted. No waypoints.

 	I did a wine-boot. No waypoints.

 	Where did I goof??

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues
Sclerotic Squirreler, Double Retiree, Linux Evangelist



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