c69
October 18th, 2011, 09:08 PM
I upgraded to 11.10 and find that it has overwritten the account and password information for my primary user account.
The folders are still present (~home/user1/), with all the configuration data for that user, totaling somewhere near 80G of data.
I am tempted to create a new user with the name "user1" and hope that it does not overwrite or delete anything in the existing directory hierarchy, but I'm not expecting to be that lucky. Because I have limited space, it is unadvised that I copy the data at this poiint.
This account has a bunch of developer tools, workspaces, etc configured, so I do not want to alter.
Is there a way I can manually restore this user account?
The folders are still present (~home/user1/), with all the configuration data for that user, totaling somewhere near 80G of data.
I am tempted to create a new user with the name "user1" and hope that it does not overwrite or delete anything in the existing directory hierarchy, but I'm not expecting to be that lucky. Because I have limited space, it is unadvised that I copy the data at this poiint.
This account has a bunch of developer tools, workspaces, etc configured, so I do not want to alter.
Is there a way I can manually restore this user account?