If you install a new Windows or Ubuntu over an old one, it should keep your users, and their IDs, intact, as well as profile/home directory. It it possible to copy a profile from one user to another on Windows. I wrote a util for this - http://profiletool.codeplex.com/ - while I haven't tested it since Windows XP, it's (a) open source, so you can fix it yourself, and (b) the methodology can be done manually. You may also be able to do this from the Profiles control panel capplet, or whatever Windows 7 has there. For Linux, if you have a new account with a new uid, you can do something like this to fix: rm /home/newuser mv /home/olduser /home/newuser find /home/newuser -uid 1000 | xargs chown newuser (where 1000 is replaced with the user ID of your old profile) Windows requires a similar set of steps, but you also have to change ownership of the registry keys in the NTUSER.DAT file in the profile. Craig On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Chakat Sandwalker <sandwalker(a)gmail.com>wrote:
Now that I have a copy of Windows 7 Professional x64, I can go ahead and install that and Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on my laptop. However, I'm a bit unsure of how well my existing profile will be imported (if at all). As I have the 32-bit version installed, I have to do a clean install. In the past my user account has had its ownership changed to '1001', and I had to create a new account and copy the old stuff over.
In this case, would it just be easier to create a new user account and copy my data over to it? The query's apropos Ubuntu, though the same could apply in Windows; that has its own foibles with using the same username (tacking on .WINDOWS was XP's method of doing things; I've no idea if Windows 7 does that).
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