Chris Green  wrote:
>>
> Well, in genral, anything in ~/.config and/or files that have a .conf
> or .cfg suffix are configuration files for programs you have installed
> so are worth keeping if you want to keep your configurations.
>
> Files in .cache directories or with similar suffix are cache files and
> just preserve state to speed things up a little so can usually be
> discarded.
>
> Then there are .login, .profile, .bashrc, .bash which are
> your login and shell environment and configuration.  If you have
> changed them you probably want to preserve them.
>
>
> However, having said all that, I'd recommened copying the whole of
> /home out to a backup and then copying it back in after the upgrade.
> Restoring cache files won't do any harm.
>
In the end, that is what I did. As it happened, the upgrade went without
a hitch (so far!) and I haven't needed to restore anything at all.

I was somewhat stunned at the number and volume of files transferred,
2.8 GB, 2.0 of them .cache files.

Where does the chromium browser store login credentials? A Web search
didn't turn up any ready answers for the case of the Pi. It appears
that Mac and Windows put them in system directories.

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska

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