Overwrite confirmation needed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Aptik |
Opinion
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Low
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Tony George |
Bug Description
I just used Aptik for the first time. I had some problems after doing a clean install of Linux Mint 18 and then restoring my applications and applications settings etc. from a backup (using Mint 17.3) with Aptik.
Am now getting lots of warning messages about my fontconfig file (as mentioned here: https:/
The problem appears to be result of my having overwritten a configuration file or of not having a font I used to have or something like that. It would be useful if Aptik offered an overwrite confirmation option for each file to be overwritten.
Unfortunately, I didn't install Timeshift yet (waiting for the new version) so I will have a slightly more trouble resolving than I might have, as well as needing to check what else I might have zapped.
Restoring app settings will always overwrite existing files. Since many files are overwritten it is not practical to provide a confirmation prompt. Even if a prompt is provided most users will not be able to decide which files to overwrite and which files to skip. This is why the confirmation prompt is not provided. Since restore is meant to be run on a fresh installation, the home directory usually contains very few configuration files which can be safely overwritten.
The link you provided refers to configuration files in /etc folder. Aptik does not backup or restore files under /etc. Only the per-user configuration files in home will be restored.