16 Nov
2011
16 Nov
'11
12:52 p.m.
Mea culpa - apology at the end. :-(
On 16 November 2011 12:09, Laurent Dard <f.couperin(a)online.fr> wrote:
Le 16/11/2011 12:28, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
I feel mortified at my own stupidity. I came back to the computer
because I remembered that I hadn't said what I was running. My only
excuse is that I find GMail as an email client a nightmare and find it
difficult to reread my own mail before it goes. :-(
I am running KDE 3.5.10 on Lenny. I initially tried to use Trinity
3.5.12 on Squeeze, but that is where my KMail first got messed up.
And I now can't get back to my KDE settings either. I would at least
like to get this working again, and then explore how I shall get
Squeeze + Trinity going on the rebuild of my (sadly defunct) desktop.
I am currently running on my testbed machine, which is not going to be
long-term usable.
Meanwhile, I have all my KMail folders, but cannot persuade KMail to
use them. :-(
I'm really sorry that I landed you two generous helpers with almost
wasting your time. (Almost, because once I have rebuilt my desktop I
shall use either Squeeze or Lenny - and in either case the then
current Trinity. And I shall then want to know how to rescue my
KMail!!)
I bow my head in mortification :-(
Lisi
Help!! I really need my KMail stuff! How do I
persuade KMail to use it?
If you're using the latest trinity version of kmail, I think you must
copy your configuration from kde3 to trinity:
$ cp -afv ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail ~/.trinity/share/apps/
$ cp -afv ~/.kde/share/config/kmail* ~/.trinity/share/config/
And you have to replace '$HOME/.kde' by '$HOME/.trinity' in
/home/lisi/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc:
$ sed 's|HOME/.kde|HOME/.trinity|g' -i ~/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc
Alternatively, just copy the whole folder:
$ cp -av /home/lisi/.kde/* /home/lisi/.trinity/
(but it's going to erase new settings in trinity and you'll have to change
some other files)
(Another solution is to use a symbolic link:
$ rm -rf ~/.trinity
$ ln -sv .kde ~/.trinity
In this case, you'll have nothing to change.)
And if you fear mistakes (you should), don't forget backups:
$ cp -av /home/lisi/.kde /home/lisi/.kde.back
$ cp -av /home/lisi/.trinity /home/lisi/.trinity.back
Good luck.