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Ok, I have written a bug that will be erase because it's a duplicate of this bug. (#526733)
Because I want this bug to be corrected, I post my situation and solutions to improve Ubuntu (I don't want new user to search hours like I did).

Version : Karmic Koala 9.10
Media : 
- desktop installation cd
- alternate installation cd of Karmic Koala 9.10
- cd 
- USB boot drive and 
- in french and english.

When :
At 89%, at the stage of "importing documents and settings" the installer crash and then i have a windows saying :
Application problem
Sorry, the program "ubiquity" closed unexpectedly

Observations :
1-When looking at the new partition that was programmed to be mounted as /home, i can see that the Document folder (/home/jp/Documents) was trying to copy all the files contained in my windows XP profile.
Easy to understand that if this windows folder contained 33,8 gig and that my new linux partition for the /home only has 15 gig allocated, it won't work.
2- I already had a partition called /home (as a backup) and I was assigning another one to /home !
3- There is no step where you can chose to import your XP data (it appears later after erasing this second /home partition)

The bug is :
- The installer copy my Windows folder to his new partition without my permission.
- Once it does it, it doesn't check if there is enough space in the new location, so it crashes when it gets full.
- It copy it to the wrong /home partition that wasn't assignated in the manual partitioning.


Solution to correct this bug:
1- After a manual partitionning, Ubiquity check if there a partition that is already called /home and make the user chose. (something like : Oh I see you already have an installation on /home, you're a cleaver linux user so I'll make you save your datas, do you want to use the same user name or create another one and access your datas once Ubuntu is fully installed?
2- If it's too complicated, obey to what the user said. If he chose a new partition to be /home, don't look anywhere else, and install it to this exact location. So the user can try to restore is data hardfully later (mine are already lost).

Once this is done, the migration assistant work perfectly and make the
user chose if they want to import their Windows documents. (my
recommandation would be to just to make a shortcut instead of a copy).

Hope this bug get solved by a programmer, not by the users. (hope this
doesn't sound too ironic, i've just noticed this bug has 2 years old).

Thank you

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almost at the end of installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234835
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