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here:  I'm planning to upgrade from Maverick to Natty, and to
try out Unity, but I don't want to lose any settings,
customizations and downloads in Maverick. I just want to know,
if upgrading alter anything that I said earlier?  I don't want
to start over with a clean, fresh Natty, and I hope I can keep
all of my files and folders and settings in Maverick, and to
have them in Natty after the upgrade. Is this possible? Should I
use Update Manager to achieve this? And would all my compiz-
settings be reset after I upgrade?  Sorry for too much
questions, but I'm asking this because you know, in Windows, any
version upgrade would require the disk to be reformatted. I hope
Ubuntu is more convenient than that.  share|improve this
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terdon, BuZZ-dEE, Warren Hill Mar 17 at 8:26   2 Answers 2
Ubuntu distribution upgrades are designed to be done over
existing installations, and the process should go fai