Comment 6 for bug 48630

Ubiquity should check for the existence of the user's home directory. I always upgrade Ubuntu by means of fresh installs, formatting my / partition and leaving my /home partition untouched. Usually I'll move /home/pablo to /home/pablo.old before doing that, but now upgrading to lucid alpha 3 I forgot to do it. I chose to reinstall -without even trying to reboot- to avoid mismatching settings etc.

It would be great if ubiquity offered to move the directory out of the way (possibly as $HOME/Old\ Personal\ Folder or something), in addition to just using it as-is. chowning it should definitely be done in either case.