How to do a clean install from MX-19.x to MX-21

[Paul..]

I have one installation of mx where I've preserved home from mx14 to mx16 and then to mx19. But these were always xfce. Never tried with plasma yet.

@asqwerth That's gotta be a world's record or somethin'!!!

[figueroa]

The answer to the question for your Thunderbird and Firefox settings, with neither Firefox or Thunderbird running, assuming you used the same username on MX-21, are:

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rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox
cp -a /oldmx/home/USERNAME/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/
rm -rf ~/.thunderbird
cp -a /oldmx/home/USERNAME/.thunderbird ~/

You can do similar for your Document, but I would not recommend you try this for other configuration files, certainly not while your MX-21 is running and your logged in as your user. Hint: before overwriting any ~/.config files, backup that directory.

[Gordon Cooper]

A few years back I joined the local Linux Club, and with help from M Pav, swapped from Kubuntu to Mepis, then to MX-14. Like askwerth, have continued with upgrades as each version of MX appeared, using xcfe, Home was preserved each time without problems until MX-21 arrived. This time I moved Home to an external hard drive and started a complete new installation of MX-21. After spending much of a wet weekend sorting things out, MX-21 is now up and running, except for gmail which has completely disappeared. 'Tis not quite the end of the world, can still access gmail on the MX-19 backup machine but am puzzled why i cannot find it for 21.