-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 14:17, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi, > Merry Christmas or happy holidays to all on the list. > A quick question that arose from my last installation. I would like to know > the best way to save emails, desktop settings etc. when installing new > versions. > When I installed 10.1 Official I tried to copy my Mail directory and > my .kde>share>apps>kmail directories thinking that they would restore all > my emails. > When I copied them over to /mnt/win_d (fat32 partition) there were some > errors about some files not copied. > There were no essential emails so I proceeded with the installation. > My kmail directory structure was saved but the actual emails were not. > > What is the the recommended method of retaining emails? Also, is it > advisable to retain desktop settings considering that KDE (my choice) is > constantly being upgraded to new versioins? > Bill, your mails should have been saved OK, but somewhere (can't remember whether it was 10.0 or 10.1) Mandrake changed the structure, so that instead of the mails being in ~/Mail they are in ~/.mail. You may find that the old mails are still there, just not visible.
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFBz9IbkFAvMr/nNX8RAh4yAJjfyiZi6f3lU8FgIw/dWy552w46AKCL3hD3 wX9V3xkDyKUWBXOY7QMufQ== =9Kyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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