Post-upgrade issues

[Fester Bestertester]

Upgraded to latest Raspbian, then reboot says configs have changed, with old stuff put in ~/oldconfigs. My experience is encountering an empty directory there. I do stuff to the Panel, and that info should be stored there. Another instance of Sir Terry Pratchett's " + + + Re-do from start + + + " or maybe "Out of cheese error", though I don't think the mouse is involved here

[Cancelor]

I'm not sure what question your asking, do you want to revert to an older version?

Is the upgraded version working?

When you say ''I do stuff to the Panel'' what panel do you mean?

[Fester Bestertester]

I'm not sure what question your asking, do you want to revert to an older version?

Is the upgraded version working?

When you say ''I do stuff to the Panel'' what panel do you mean?

Did you go to school? Did you learn English? OK, then use the apostrophe (and a dictionary - that's what it's for) and learn the difference between "your" and "you're" - and while you're at it, learn to discern that difference by ear.

Now, to proceed: of course the upgraded version is working. I'd be posting about that before anything else. THINK, for gods' sake (any gods you'd care to name).

Don't even know what the Panel is? RTFM!

[asandford]

Did you go to school? Did you learn English? OK, then use the apostrophe (and a dictionary - that's what it's for) and learn the difference between "your" and "you're" - and while you're at it, learn to discern that difference by ear.

Now, to proceed: of course the upgraded version is working. I'd be posting about that before anything else. THINK, for gods' sake (any gods you'd care to name).

Don't even know what the Panel is? RTFM!

Is that the best reply you can give to someone who's trying to help you?

Please explain what "I do stuff to the Panel, and that info should be stored there" actually means.

And before you ask, I'm English (and fluent in it) and went to school.

[mahjongg]

PLEASE BEHAVE!

[Fester Bestertester]

PLEASE BEHAVE!

Sorry, but I'm a self-confessed Pedant. Please READ what I wrote. If you don't know what the Panel is, RTFM. If you can't even do that, herewith: The Panel is the strip of icons along one edge of the screen. It includes such things as the Menu button. I do stuff to it, like (after running obconf (openBox Configuration) to add virtual Desktops) adding a Desktop Pager there (to show those). Were you not aware that Linux of ALL flavours has such a facility? I also add my own choice of Browser, Mailer and File Manager and, not doing much in the way of Programming, I delete Wolfram and Mathematica. With the update I lost that setup - it should at least have been stored in some fashion in ~/oldconfig. 'nuff sed.

[DirkS]

The files / directories in oldconfigfiles are hidden. They are straight copies of .config and .themes from the home directory.
Make sure 'show hidden files' is enabled in the file manager or use 'ls -la' in a terminal window.

[Fester Bestertester]

Thanks for that! As usual, something simple. Now can we have the reboot-after-upgrade advisory mention that the files in ~/oldconfig are Hidden? Ctrl-H