This began as "printer again" and I mentioned a number of crashes. I have decided to start over, i.e., loading a new version of OpenSUSE-TW. I obviously would like to save as much of my own files and apps as possible. I've never done this before, so I don't know what I have to do. gparted shows some Windows partitions, then /dev/nvme0n1p6 as ext4 / and /dev/nvme0n1p7 as ext4 /home mount point shows as /run/media/doug/4640427543C81F7S The / and /home are formatted ext4, and I want to keep this formatting. It does appear that my own stuff is in /home, but is this just the CONTENTS of the apps, or the entire installed app? That is, do I have to look up and install all the apps over again? I have an outboard H/D with nothing on it, which gparted calls /dev/sda1, formatted ntfs at present. I want to copy the entire /home directory to this, and then copy it back to the cleaned up and reinstalled system. Should I leave the ntfs format, or should I change it? If so, to what? ext4? What should I be doing to get all this done, neatly and cleanly? Before you go: There MAY be a problem with the eset AV program. Is this something (which I paid for) that I have to eliminate, and if so, what can I replace it with? It seemed that before I went for eset I tried to install something free, but unsuccessfully. Sorry for the long post, but you folks have been a big help to this newbie to OpenSUSE, and I hope you will do so again. Thank you! --doug