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So, I'm going to do a reinstall on my laptop and want to backup my .config. But the issue is that when I tried to do it I think it replaced my desktops .config directly because they both have the exact same path.(Luckily I keep my desktop and laptops configuration VERY similar, so I'm not noticing any issues immediately) Which is why I want to force the downloaded directory to have a different name so it doesn't try to replace the files on my desktop.



This seems like it should be a simple thing to fix, but I just can't seem to find anything about it on google. So here I am.









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    So, I'm going to do a reinstall on my laptop and want to backup my .config. But the issue is that when I tried to do it I think it replaced my desktops .config directly because they both have the exact same path.(Luckily I keep my desktop and laptops configuration VERY similar, so I'm not noticing any issues immediately) Which is why I want to force the downloaded directory to have a different name so it doesn't try to replace the files on my desktop.



    This seems like it should be a simple thing to fix, but I just can't seem to find anything about it on google. So here I am.









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      So, I'm going to do a reinstall on my laptop and want to backup my .config. But the issue is that when I tried to do it I think it replaced my desktops .config directly because they both have the exact same path.(Luckily I keep my desktop and laptops configuration VERY similar, so I'm not noticing any issues immediately) Which is why I want to force the downloaded directory to have a different name so it doesn't try to replace the files on my desktop.



      This seems like it should be a simple thing to fix, but I just can't seem to find anything about it on google. So here I am.









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      So, I'm going to do a reinstall on my laptop and want to backup my .config. But the issue is that when I tried to do it I think it replaced my desktops .config directly because they both have the exact same path.(Luckily I keep my desktop and laptops configuration VERY similar, so I'm not noticing any issues immediately) Which is why I want to force the downloaded directory to have a different name so it doesn't try to replace the files on my desktop.



      This seems like it should be a simple thing to fix, but I just can't seem to find anything about it on google. So here I am.







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