GHome Mover is a user-friendly software that effortlessly duplicates a home directory from one user to another.
GHome Mover is a user-friendly application that allows you to copy your home directory from one user to another while replacing all the old references with new ones. If you are a MS Windows user, you can equate GHome Mover to the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" application. With an efficiency rate of about 95%, GHome Mover is optimized to replace old directory/user references and maintain a safe engine that preserves your data.
GHome Mover is designed to work on the Gnome Desktop 2.x, but it works just fine on KDE too. It is distributed under the GNU/GPL License, and there is also a Console version that operates without a GUI, making it ideal for scripting or use with old computers.
GHome Mover is versatile and can work with other types of directories, such as MS Windows FAT directories. It proves beneficial in several circumstances, such as a corporate network administrator who wants to create a pre-configured desktop for employees, personalizing it, then moving it to all the machines in the network as an extended skels system. It is also useful for backing up your files into another directory or changing your username and transferring your configurations and personal settings.
To install GHome Mover, you need to have development tools, Gnome devel libs 2.x, and GTK 2.x devel libs installed to build the Tarball Version. However, for the Console version, you don't require Gnome and GTK Libs. With the source tarballs (.tgz file), unpack it (as root), go to the directory, type "./configure," then "make," and "make install" without any errors.
Using GHome Mover is straightforward. Login as a root user, start the program, complete all the fields, and click the Begin button to begin the process. It is highly recommended to log in as a root user if you want to change users at the /home/xxx directory. With the SMART option, the program can ignore searching for strings to replace files like JPG, MPG, and GIF, among others, as well as files bigger than 250KB.
Overall, GHome Mover is a reliable application that is easy to use and highly efficient, making it ideal for anyone looking to transfer their home directory or backup their files into another directory.
GHome Mover is designed to work on the Gnome Desktop 2.x, but it works just fine on KDE too. It is distributed under the GNU/GPL License, and there is also a Console version that operates without a GUI, making it ideal for scripting or use with old computers.
GHome Mover is versatile and can work with other types of directories, such as MS Windows FAT directories. It proves beneficial in several circumstances, such as a corporate network administrator who wants to create a pre-configured desktop for employees, personalizing it, then moving it to all the machines in the network as an extended skels system. It is also useful for backing up your files into another directory or changing your username and transferring your configurations and personal settings.
To install GHome Mover, you need to have development tools, Gnome devel libs 2.x, and GTK 2.x devel libs installed to build the Tarball Version. However, for the Console version, you don't require Gnome and GTK Libs. With the source tarballs (.tgz file), unpack it (as root), go to the directory, type "./configure," then "make," and "make install" without any errors.
Using GHome Mover is straightforward. Login as a root user, start the program, complete all the fields, and click the Begin button to begin the process. It is highly recommended to log in as a root user if you want to change users at the /home/xxx directory. With the SMART option, the program can ignore searching for strings to replace files like JPG, MPG, and GIF, among others, as well as files bigger than 250KB.
Overall, GHome Mover is a reliable application that is easy to use and highly efficient, making it ideal for anyone looking to transfer their home directory or backup their files into another directory.
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