So I copied my entire home directory (zipped) to my laptop and then jumped from Fedora 14 to 17 on my desktop, resulting in a semi-clean break and an opportunity to separate value from cruft and to organize the valued. I also used FEBE to backup my entire Firefox setup.

Anyway, so then I installed Fedora 17. The zip of my home directory from fed14 was 20GB, so it took a while for that to get over. Also ran into a glitch where you need to disable and reenable your firewall for ssh to work. Regardless, 20GB took a while, so in the mean time, I set up sudo and installed the Gnome Tweak Tool and fedorautils.

I made my old home directory a child of my new home directory. Since then, I’ve been going through the old files and moving things up to the new home directory as I get them pruned and organized. Fun stuff.

So what you see in the image above is my investigation and delegation/deletion of files. What’s kind of cool is that as I moved/removed files from the command line (in front), I was able to see the visual view (in back) change. OK, kind of lame, but still kind of amazing.