Take the 2-minute tour ×  When I upgrade to 13.04 at the end of
this month, I want to preserve all the wifi passwords that I
have saved from my workplace/friends houses/etc. But I don't
want to do an 'upgrade' or anything like that, I like to do a
fresh install on a reformatted hard drive.  How can I preserve
all the saved wifi hotspots?  share|improve this question  1
Answer 1  up vote 5 down vote accepted  There is a folder on
your filesystem that keeps all the network profiles. That folder
is   If you copy that onto a USB stick, you should be able to
paste the content of it into the new install's system-
connections folder.  Similar question here.  share|improve this
answer Now that is the most awesome, unpretentious comment in a
long time. –  Scott Goodgame Apr 12 '13 at 7:08 what comment ..?
–  wim Apr 15 '13 at 13:16  Your Answer