I couldn’t find a way to upgrade from 18.3 to 19, so eventually, triple-booted them both with Windows 10. Then I took the backups, I do every week, and tried to restore them on the new 19. It restored some files, but not others. I hand-carried some files, then I did a new backup adding actual “do…

Cord, I don’t know what my HD is. Actually, either of them. HDD, I assume. Anyway, since I had good luck with the restore, this a.m., before the Grubb lost my 19 login, I went ahead and did another backup, and reinstalled 19, after deleting both partitions. It looks like MOST, at least, of my fi…

Oh, Goody! This a.m. I finally found that I had all my backup files, and restored them. Was so proud, but found I had an old copy of a db file, so I went back to 18.3 to find that…it was probably in a sub-file, all the time. Anyway, rebooted, to go back to 19, and it’s totally disappeared! I loo…

If you upgrade as I said above from 18.3 to 19 - 19 replaces everything, but if providing you have done as the link I gave said none of it will have disappeared and you can do a normal back up through Mint as usual - it’s not hard to do. If you really want to clean stuff of the simple way of doing …

Dandy, I have 3 partitions, Win 10, Mint 18.3, and Mint 19. When installing the new Mint, it asked if I wanted to delete everything and install 19, or install it beside the 2 already there. That’s what I did. How do I get JUST Win 10 and Mint 19? Can I just delete the partition with 18.3 and the…

If you just want to keep 19 then yes just delete the 18.3 and then you will only have the two. If you read through when installing mint where it says as mention above - there is a button there that says something else. Tick that and it will take where you can delete the partition. You can safely do …

[image] bikrgran: Can I just delete the partition with 18.3 and then use that (resize) to make 19 an Win 10 bigger? i would add the caution that this gets into an area where data loss is a possibility. deleting the 18.3 partition is fairly straightforward, but when i have resized the adjacent…

[image] 01101111: i have resized the adjacent partitions in the past gparted (the partitioning tool i prefer) has always warned me that data loss might occur It is not likely that will happen, except in the following instances: your file system already is partially corrupted or worse you ar…

i’m glad to hear you got (most) everything back to where you wanted it. i went ahead and marked this solved since all seems well, but i think either of us can reverse that if it seems like something else is amiss in the future :slight_smile: for what it’s worth, i have read numerous times on reddit…

[image] Akito: you are resizing/moving e.g. a full root partition this was the possibility that i was considering. if 18.3 was on partition 2 of 3 and got erased, win10 (presumably on 1) would fill out to about 1.5. then it would make sense (if i am understanding the graphical representation …

[image] 01101111: that was what the warning about data loss was about I’d say, the warning itself is like the no warranty disclaimer in licenses. The operation/software will almost always work as expected, but don’t bet your life on it, is basically what it means. It’s more of a “better safe …

agreed. my final point if op hadn’t come to a different fix would have been to say having a full-system backup (this is what i use clonezilla for) would be a good idea just in case.

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