Things lost in new machine

[danemacmillan]

When starting fresh on a new machine, these are things I have lost:

Important

• [ ] MySQL (SequelPro) saved server connections and auths.
• [ ] PhpStorm settings.
• [ ] Firefox bookmarks (sync did not sync them).

Consider using https://github.com/lra/mackup for backing up many of these GUI tools' settings.

Somewhat important

• [ ] MacOS settings:
  • [x] Screenshots location
  • [x] Scroll direction (not natural)
  • [ ] Gestures
  • [ ] Colors
  • [x] Hide dot files
  • [ ] Three finger drag (https://support.apple.com/en-ca/ht204609)
  • [x] tmux TPM manager (https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm)
  • [ ] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/214348/how-to-prevent-mac-from-changing-the-order-of-desktops-spaces
  • [ ] Replace ~/Downloads with symlink to iCloud/Downloads.
  • [ ] Auto-symlink several files from within iCloud to user directory (think linus.yaml and rclone)

Nice to have

• [ ] Code repositories, though they are all up in Git. It would be nice, though, to have a backup in iCloud (could be bad given the number of small files), so a new machine can just bring it in.
• [ ] Virtual machines (not that bad).
• [ ] Firefox containers (all of the work of designating what domains for what containers).
• [x] Symlink to Mobile Documents at ~/iCloud
• [x] Replace native bash version with homebrew version. etc/shells and chsh.
• [ ] Safari Extensions: XDebugToggle.app and Dark Reader for Safari.app
• [ ] stts uptime tool, from App Store.

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Everything else is backed up or automated.

https://github.com/danemacmillan/dotfiles/issues/21

Note that to setup xdebug, configs in dotfiles use port 9001, so modify phpstorm to use that. Consider just going back to socket.

Also, xdebug's RC became 3+, so the configuration needs to be changed. See:

• https://xdebug.org/docs/upgrade_guide
• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/2020.3/zero-configuration-debugging.html#validate-the-debugging-engine

Edit Nov 9, 2021:

• Integrate iCloud Drive technique for quicker uptime. This will ensure compatible calls to ln that are POSIX-compliant (not using -r option). This will also ensure some links like .ssh directory are made properly.
• Consider replacing whole linking technique with stow at the very end.

[danemacmillan]

Notes for iCloud technique:

• run basic symlinks (.ssh, iCloud)
• ensure 600 permissions on .ssh

Then run dotfiles. Ensuring XDG directories are topmost. Then everything else. Then stow.