Hello Nik,

Thank you for your quick reply. My 12 year old P4 dual core is dieing and I have a new AMD quad core sat here doing nothing but waiting for me to get round to using it.

On Friday 20 November 2015 13:51:38 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

Am Freitag, 20. November 2015 schrieb Baron:

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Hi Guys,

I need to save and transfer all my Kmail, Knode settings and passwords to a new machine running Jessie/TDE desktop. However the machine I need to transfer from is 32 bit and the new one is 64 bit, I don't know if that makes a difference.

Which files do I need to copy over ? I've already done a backup of "Home" though some files didn't copy at all but I think that they were things like sockets.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi!

64 or 32 does not matter. Either move the whole ~/.trinity folder to the new machine, or be more selective.

I'm glad that moving from 32 to 64 bit isn't an issue.

For kmail do a "find . -iname kmail*", to get all the files an folders. You'll need at least: ~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail ~/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc The Folder, where your mails are stored in: cat ~/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc|grep folders=

Thanks: found them.

You might also need the tdewallet, if you stored the passwords there: ~/.trinity/share/apps/tdewallet ~/.trinity/share/config/tdewalletrc ~/.trinity/share/apps/tdewallet/kdewallet.kwl

I don't use Kdewallet ! I've had some previous experience with that and I don't like it.

For knode .. I've never used it, so ....

I found that data using the same path as above. Thanks:

Please write down the passwords for your email accounts prior to moving, 'cause that was a source of surprises for me :-)

Nik

Actually it was keeping hold of the passwords for the various accounts that was my main concern. I did rather hope that it would just be a simple file transfer.

On Friday 20 November 2015 09:15:29 am Baron wrote:

Hello Nik,

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I found that data using the same path as above.  Thanks:

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Please write down the passwords for your email accounts prior to moving, 'cause that was a source of surprises for me :-)

Nik

Actually it was keeping hold of the passwords for the various accounts that was my main concern.  I did rather hope that it would just be a simple file transfer.

Baron,

I believe it can be done by *moderately* simple file transfer, with one small complication.

What I do is copy these files from my home directory:

tar cvfW  apkmail.tar  .trinity/share/apps/kmail/

tar cvfW configs.tar  .trinity/share/config/kmail*   .trinity/share/config/email*  .trinity/share/config/kaddress*   .trinity/share/config/kwallet*

and then install them on the new drive/partition:

tar -xv --overwrite --totals  --file=configs.tar

tar -xv --overwrite --totals  --file=apkmail.tar

This works just fine and Kmail will send or receive emails without asking for a password because the passwords are in ~.trinity/share/config/kmailrc (munged, not plain text). *However* if this is a first run of Kmail it will ask for passwords after a reboot. What I do then is repeat:

tar -xv --overwrite --totals  --file=configs.tar

and it works fine thereafter. I think.

I'm still working this out, but it seems to work. I do it so seldom I have not bothered to hunt down the problems, but always meant to. Your post motivated me to try again. Let me know if it works for you.

Andy