Hi

In opensuse 11.1 and kde 4 i upgraded using # zypper ref && zypper up but now my kmail is completely empty

( this is KMail
Version 1.12.2
Using KDE 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 183")

it looks like everything is still in /home/fabrice/.kde4/share/apps/kmail (accounts, mail...) but how come kmail did not took everything in charge by himself

How do i have my settings back ?


Thanks

What version did you upgrade from?
(both KDE and OpenSUSE versions)

Cheers,
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Hi,
i'm not sure which exact version i upgraded from but certainly the previous one of those i gave above as i upgrade very often (once a week or more).

i found a solution and detailed it here :
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications ... grade.html

If you could explain why it happened that'd be interesting

Thanks

manchette wrote:If you could explain why it happened that'd be interesting

KDE's data and config files are traditionally located under $HOME/.kde (though this can be overrules by users or admins by setting $KDEHOME).

Now, with the transition from KDE3 to KDE4, different Linux distributors handled this differently.

Some switched KDE versions, meaning they removed KDE3 and introduced KDE4. Thus both versions would use $HOME/.kde and each application would upgrade/import its older version's files.

Some changed KDE4's libraries to use $HOME/.kde4 instead, keeping $HOME/.kde for KDE3 applications that were still made available in the distributor's repostory.

Some of those has written instructions how to prepare for using a KDE4 version of a previously used KDE3 program, e.g. which files to copy from .kde to .kde4
Some provided variants of migration tools which did this copying.

Some had KDE4 only as experimental packages, switching to KDE4 similar to the distributors in the first group. Some of them even have migration instructions or tools helping those users who used the experimental packages.

It looks like OpenSUSE is having some additional step of some sort, where they first introduce KDE4 with changes into an unchanged KDE3 setup, then (right now) have changed KDE3 in an otherwise unchanged KDE4 setup and probably fade out KDE3 in the long run.

My guess (Debian user myself) on their migration path is that they have instructions on how to do it.

Maybe something like (better try this with a second user account first or check with the OpenSUSE people)

Logout of KDE

mv $HOME/.kde $HOME/.kde3
mv $HOME/.kde4 $HOME/.kde

Login again

Cheers,
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