On 06/12/2020 05:35 pm, bob prohaska wrote:
> 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.

But it doesn't do any good, either.

>>
> 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.

I mount a tmpfs on ~/.cache
It gets over the unnecessary, massive, data transfers when backing up.

>
> 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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