Move from windows to linux

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Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

3.2.13

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.2.13 (prod, linux)

Client ID: 85a650a86c6c44db9970e7e89738d640
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 47
Keychain Supported: No

Revision: a898e17

Backup: 1.4.2
Freehand Drawing: 2.14.0

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What issue do you have?

After decades of using windows and linux on seperate machines I have finally moved entriely to linux (Manjaro) . I had Joplin on my window machine and used the backup pluging to create a backup.

Sadly what it created is no use when trying to reimport to the linux version. I still have the windows subdirectory which I can mount and look at so the question is, is there anyway I can use this to import my Joplin instance fully into my linux instance?

Any help gratefully recieved.

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What format is your export from windows machine?

The lossless one is .jex

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from memory I believe thats what I used. When I look at what is produced apart from no note content there is no sqlite database and the jex file is small relative to what I expected.

I assumme that it also backs up the attachments in the resource database.

Its m y fault I should have checked it before I moved to linux.

Its a one off event I just need to be able to recover it somehow.

Is the desktop profile directory and format the same i.e. can I just copy the windows files to the new linux instance....I guess the sqlite DB index might be wrong given that its a new instance...

I think I dug a hole here
many thanks for any help

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I presume you can copy all the files from joplin-desktop directory on windows to Linux. Let's see how it goes