Upgrade personal data, puppy1 to puppy2 (lobster?)

[BarryK-not-logged-in]

I don't yet have any mechanism for upgrading the personal data file pupxxx
from puppy1 to puppy2.

Puppy2 has a personal file named pup_save.3fs, which saves everything under "/", whereas pupxxx saves everything in /root.

The main thing is to transfer stuff like email, addressbook, browser history/bookmarks, and I seem to recall lobster, that you wrote some kind of script for this?

If we could have a script that extracts all the relevant stuff to some partition somewhere (even a floppy), then when bootup puppy2 run another script to read it back.

[BarryK-not-logged-in]

Ah, no, just realised, no need to save the personal data.
We only need one script, after booting puppy2, use a loop device to mount pupxxx file, then extract what is needed.

So, the question boils down to identifying what files and directories to extract from pupxxx.

[Lobster]

Phew - I think I just been saved having to code . . . I was writing something but too hard for me . . .

bookmark.html (also there is password master file that would be useful)
Gaim settings
FTP
Sylpheed (splitting config from emails)
Dialup settings

would be very important

If anyone can help with the exact files that would probably be useful
The program (I think I had 5 lines of code) used or I intended to use wget (simple enough) and fget (for placing files on an FTP server) so that would be a great program for someone (not me I have a bad brain)
The ideal would enable people to save on a variety of media and even online if they wished with becrypt or server side encryption (at a server kennel somewhere)

[BarryK]

Add Mozilla bookmarks and passwords.
Mozilla history?
Ical calendar data.
Gaby addressbook data.
...phew!

[suggestionGUY]

It is my thought that you are phasing out the pupfile in favor of the pup_save.3fs
Would this not be more reliable ? Just a suggestion & thought

[Lobster]

Mozilla history?

If a history item has not been bookmarked it is probably not worth saving (and in many cases is compromising)
Perhaps as an option?
If the script links are easy to alter this is something that can be refined.
I would have thought locale, xorg settings are more important
with perhaps the ability to save a bunch of settings for different machines . . .
Oh and somehow (not even sure how) my Canon bj210 is supported by Puppy printing - that is without CUPS - gonna try some images next (set it up yesterday) and it would be good if those settings could be saved . . .

Anyway sounds good