Relocate n800 Claws Folder?
Does anyone know how to relocate the Claws email folder on an n800 from the external to internal card? I can't seem to find a procedure in the Claws program to do this. It would seem there must be a file somewhere that defines the folder location that one could edit, but I can't find it. Background : Now that I've figured out how to move some DVD movies to my external card, I want to be able to swap the external card in and out. However, I decided to put the Claws email folder on the external card after the Claws email folder was erased (or location lost) during one of the summer 2007OS upgrades. Not being a Linux user, * I can't seem to find much of anything about the structure of how things work, * Or where stuff in general is stored, or why it's stored where it is. * It seems some programs are installed here, some there, most are who knows where? * Fortunately, somehow they all show up on the user menus just fine. I suppose a short primer on Lunix would be useful, if I had time to paw through it. -- Always, Dr Fred C [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Relocate n800 Claws Folder?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually one good thing about *nix apps is that they are very systematic about that: Most apps store their per user data in configfiles ~/.appnamerc or directories ~/.appname/ where ~ denotes the user's home directory. This is usually hardcoded. If you want to move the directory somewhere else, you can move the file/dir and then use symlinks. mv ~/.appname /some/where/else/ ln -s /some/where/else/.appname ~/ So, when you moved your ~/.claws-mail/ directory last time, you probably did something like that? To check that, do ls -lda ~/.claws-mail If it looks like drwxr-xr-x 10 2 users 4096 2007-10-31 00:43 .claws-mail/ then it's still an ordinary directory in your home dir, if it looks like lrwxrwxrwx 9 root root 16 2007-08-30 17:17 .claws-mail -> /some/where/.claws-mail then it's a symlink already. BTW, these "dotfiles" are usually hidden from the user by "ls". To see them, use "ls -a". Hope that helps? There are tons of Linux primers out there, here is one of them: http://www.slideshare.net/anandvaidya/linux-introduction-commands Tilman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUAsL9ZPu6Yae8lkRAqBUAJ4sC7d+v4nQ1jchxcHJNvbHIgbBXACeMkxJ sKktRkF+XP0UEWKpyEtlf/g= =/GeW -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Relocate n800 Claws Folder?
Fred, Unfortunately, there are only two ways to do this: 1. At the initial seup of Claws. 2. By completely deleting all of the Claws config settings from your device and reconfiguring Claws from scratch. This is a feature request that I filed about this issue: http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1237 ...but it really needs to be in it's own report. I just keep forgetting. Will do it now! ;) Tim --- Weblog ~ http://tim.samoff.com Baby Blog ~ http://kc.samoff.com Photography ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff Film ~ http://www.youtube.com/timsamoff Music ~ http://www.adkoc.com > - Original Message - > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:00:00 -0800 > From: "DrFredC.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Relocate n800 Claws Folder? > To: maemo-users > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Does anyone know how to relocate the Claws email folder on an n800 from > the external to internal card? > > I can't seem to find a procedure in the Claws program to do this. > > It would seem there must be a file somewhere that defines the folder > location that one could edit, but I can't find it. > > Background : Now that I've figured out how to move some DVD movies to my > external card, I want to be able to swap the external card in and out. > However, I decided to put the Claws email folder on the external card > after the Claws email folder was erased (or location lost) during one of > the summer 2007OS upgrades. > > Not being a Linux user, > > * I can't seem to find much of anything about the structure of how > things work, > * Or where stuff in general is stored, or why it's stored where it is. > * It seems some programs are installed here, some there, most are > who knows where? > * Fortunately, somehow they all show up on the user menus just fine. > > I suppose a short primer on Lunix would be useful, if I had time to paw > through it. > > -- > > Always, Dr Fred C > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
