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=Moved ==Description=== Even installing Linux is a breeze. Thousands of Windows user found Linux is difficult to use and worry about the competity of documents.The goal of Migrate aNd Manage is provide a one-stop data migrationto migrate all user data from your old Operating System to Linux during installation or even after installation. It currently support Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OSX. In the future, mNm will support other OS,such as Ubuntu Linux, HP Unix. ===Features===<pre>= Support post install files migration= Support XP/Vista/OSX= Support random flags syntax in command mode= Support listing users from XP and Vista= Support any Linux or Unix based system that has python installed and same user folder structure.= Support automatic user detection or with a given user name(s)= Support copying file(s) and folder(s) to specified location= If given location is not a home folder of the OS type given, it will report error message and exit= When duplicate file(s) or folder(s) is detected, wdmt has an option to replace older file/folder, backup existing Fedora user folder(s) or replace existing user folder(s)= Auto create user list with a temporary password and migrate folders and files</pre> ===Program Logic Flow v0.1 20081012==='''START''' <br>* Show welcome This page and descriptions* Search Windows User Folders* Gathering folders information* Check if Fedora User parition is enough for all documents from Windows users* Prompt if administrator wants every thing automatic -> go to AUTO else -> go to MANUAL'''AUTO'''* List all possible users and ask if every thing is correct* Generate for dummy password for each user* Automatic create User* Automatic move User documents to each user directory* Automatic migrate bookmarks to Konqueror, Firefox:* See note about mail migration below for similar ideas. (http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/browser/components/migration/src/)'''MANUAL'''* List all possible users and ask for individual password* Prompt each folder that copy to Fedora partition, and see if administrator wants to move files has been moved to a specific folder* Prompt each user when move bookmarks to Konqueror, Firefox ===Future Development / Advanced Functions:=== * environment migration* mail accounts, import mail database (outlook, thunderbird, etc):* (humph, Nov 3, 2008) This can be done via Thunderbird's [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments -migration] command line switch, in order to pull all mail/settings into the current profile (i.e., assumes a profile). However, since this produces an mbox, you could also use it to then dump to some other mail client. Also, this method still needs user intervention, and could be automated to accept path(s). See code in http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/migration/src/* Windows a-like environment setting* automatic download applications associate all file type* IM migration ===Code===The demo code is posted in [[https://fedorahosted.org/mnm/wiki/TracBrowser Migrate aNd Manage in Fedorahosted.org]] === Project Contributor(s) ===[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram#Projects Rahul Sundaram]: Rahul was the one who raise the idea of Migrate aNd Manage. Great idea, Rahul!! [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:David.humphrey David Humphrey]: resources resource on mail and bookmark migration to Firefox on wiki and IRC. Thank you David. [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Vyas Mohak Vyas]: gave me some more idea how user profiles, folders works. Thanks Mo! [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Milton.paiva Milton Paiva Neto]: show me some trick on how to handle functions in better way and using "case' instead of "if" on argument checking. ===Links=== [https://fedorahosted.org/mnm Migrate aNd Manage in Fedora Hosted]<br> [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Migrate_aNd_Manage Migrate aNd Manage in Fedora Project Wiki] <br> [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Windows_Data_Migration_Tool Migrate aNd Manage in OpenSource@Seneca] [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistance Ubuntu MigrationAssistance Page ] [http://www.michaellarabel.com/?k=blog&i=116 Ubuntu MigrationAssistance Capture from www.michaellarabel.com] ===To Do==={| class="wikitable" border="1" width="80%" align="center" |-!Item!Description!Status!Note |-|Test Machine Setup|Install Vista and Fedora in same hard disk|DONE: 20080920|install in a laptop |-|Test Mount and link |Test mounting and linking single user folder with known path|DONE: 20080921|linked music, folder to home directory successfully, still testing if any conflict in regular use |-|Test User migration|try to added user and change password in BASH script|DONE: 20081012|User add successfully and user password changed successfully |-|Python functions test|Test if desire function works in Python|DONE: 20081012|Sucessfully using file and directory handling |-|file/directory search functions planning|plan the user/files/directory handling structure and functions for WDMT|DONE: 2008/10/29|may update structure later |-|WinUserSearch|creat python function to search existing XP/Vista user|DONE: 2008/11/06|return/output a list of user in a list, all user folder plus adminstrator minus general folder(local, public) |-|Copy/move/replace folders, files with error checking|automatic or manual|DONE: 2008/11/11|possible bug(s) when handling link |-|User Create and temporary password|create a list of user with given list or detected list|DONE: 2008/11/15|done, with automatic documents migration |-|Automatic mounting NTFS/HFS|detect and mount, save the location and partition type to be used in other function|Target Date: 2008/11/20|DONE: 2008/11/26 |-|add link function|link to folder instead of copy |Target Date: 2008/11/25|DONE: 2008/11/30 |-|add all options and functions and get ready for 0.3|finish all possible functions and option that in most cases for installation or post-installation|Target Date: 2008/11/27|DONE: 2008/12/02 |-|Post in Fedorahosted||Target Date: 2008/12/20|DONE: 2009/01/21 |-|Study firstboot|Understand and have a draft plan|Target Date: 2008/12/20| |-|Contact firstboot owner|Contact the owner of firstboot and ask for opinion|Target Date: 2008/12/20| |-|improve link handling|may have bug if target/source is a link instead of file/folder|Target Date: 2008/11/20| |-|Free Space Detection|check avaliable space and see if it's possible to migrate all user data to fedora directory.|Target Date: 2008/11/25| |} ===ROADMAP==={| class="wikitable" border="1" width="80%" align="center" |-!Week!Description!Note!Status |-|Week 1-2|Host mNm current version in Fedorahosted, bug fix and improve script|fedorahosted account obtained|COMPLETED|-|Week 3-4|communicate with firstboot owner and community|See if Professor David Humph's idea on mail migrations| |-|Week 5-6|Have a Simple GUI with all buttons|| |-|Week 7-8|Single User Migration functions in GUI|| |-|Week 9-10|Add automount|before GUI program starts, prompt user if they want automount| |-|Week 11-12|Bug fix and improve|| |-|Week 13-14|Beta version Relase|| |}