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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:58:59AM +0100, Thilo Bangert spoke thusly: |
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> Hi, |
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> in the last paragraph before chapter 4 (Mail), the document says to |
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> delete ~/.kde and ~/Desktop |
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> this is not necessary and can result in the loss of important data! |
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> many/all kde programms save their data & settings in ~/.kde |
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> (korganizer, kaddressbook etc) and this might get lost. |
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> it would be safer to say to delete ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc and |
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> ~/.kde/share/config/kmix:* (sessions) |
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Since you brought this up... There is a little problem with leaving the |
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.kde directory there. The system will completely step on it when it |
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creates a .kde2 (or possibly .kde3?) directory and then turns .kde into |
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a symlink pointing to .kde2 (I did lose all my kde old settings until I |
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could get access to my backup). This is a huge pain if you have kmail |
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setup with lots of providers and you leave the addressbook in the |
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default location (I already learned my lesson about those two apps so no |
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loss for me this time ;). Also, konqueror stores all of its cookies, |
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bookmarks, cache, etc. in the .kde tree (I now use Galeon [by the way, |
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thanks to Gentoo, I could never get this to compile myself before] so |
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this also isn't a big deal to me anymore). |
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