Loose ends

I had a few gotchas after my conversion, here is what I found and my on-the-fly work arounds.

Audacity

I do some sound editing and I forgot to load audacity, in the repos and an easy fix:

# aptitude install audacity

and for the menu:

 [exec] (Audacity) {/usr/bin/audacity} <> 

Bookmarks

I was using Firefox 3 in Ubuntu as my primary browser, but when I tried to import the bookmarks into Opera it failed. Turns out as of FF3 they handle the bookmarks differently and back them up as json files. I ended up having to put my old HD in an external USB case and boot it so I could do a manual backup of the bookmarks. Once I had the html version they imported correctly.

Passwords

My old password manager was PWManager and I could not import my password database into keepassx. While I was booted via USB back to Ubuntu I did a unencrypted .csv export of my entire database. I'm going to use this opportunity to go out and change every password I had on file to a unique/complex password or delete old unused accounts.

I had a little tweaking to do on my W7 vbox to reconnect shared folders to my home directory, but it was an otherwise very smooth conversion.