Seeking advice on transfer to new computer

[Roger Bell_West]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 08:48:21PM +0000, roadcone wrote:
>I am pensioning off my Linux Mint 11 machine for a slightly newer
>machine onto which I will install Mint 17. I'd like to retain my
>download history - is it as simple as copying a single file or group
>of files from one computer to another?

Yup.

>If so, which file(s) and where
>will it/they be found please?

~/.get_iplayer/download_history

You might reasonably take the whole directory.

>I have found problems copying the get_iplayer.pl script into the
>appropriate place in Linux as I did not own the folder and was not
>sure how to overcome that problem (I discovered how to take ownership
>but did not know whether that action would have consequences to the
>running of get_iplayer or dependency programs). I resolved that
>problem another way but will a similar issue occur here please?

Configuration is stored per user, so there should be no problem.