utf8-migration-tool could possibly destroy all files within encrypted ~/Private

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: utf8-migration-tool

If you run this tool on a system with an encrypted ~/Private directory, the tool will first rename files in ~/.Private and then ~/Private. I'm not sure what happens if you manage files from ~/.Private/ but I would guess it's not that good.

Probably this tool will also care about files in ~/.gvfs/ and that is probably not what you want (if I would run it at work with a 2TB share mounted in ~/.gvfs/xyz with all the companys document, that would probably not be what I wanted).

There are no options possible with this tool so I can't think of a workaround except re-writing the code.

$ apt-cache policy utf8-migration-tool
utf8-migration-tool:
  Installed: 0.5.4
  Candidate: 0.5.4
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.4 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

[dino99 (9d9)]

That's quite old; report with newer active version if needed