Hi guys!
I had a problem with my KDE, it losts the configurations probably due to a bug... Before that I made a backup of the entire /.kde folder, making a copy inside de /home folder with the same name added by the date of the backup. I booted through a USB flash drive and replaced the old /.kde using the copy I already had. Restarting the system, it didt't works.
There is a correct way to backup and restore the /.kde folder? How can I do that?
Thank you guys! Sorry my bad english... I'm Brazilian

Hi,

what you did was just fine and should have worked from what you said...

My guess is that the backed up .kde folder doesn't contain the data you want. Well, more a presumption really.

It would be much more interesting to find out what caused the problem in the first case!

Hi Toad,
I just make other test. Fistly I reformatted my hard disk in order to have a linux for work and other for these kind of tests.
So, I made bakups mannualy (as root) of the /.kde (of work installation - after major modifications on preferences) and pasted as root in the /.kde of the test installation (as if the kde copied was a backup from the crashed system).
The system goes up normally, but when starts the kde, the error appears: "kstartupconfig4 does not exists or fails. The error code is 4. Check your installation".

I tried also some copies made with the software Kbackup. These copies made with kbackup bring me the same error.
Any idea?
Thank you.

I have an inkling... When you say you backed things up as root I bet your rights got all mixed up.

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/.kde

or

sudo chown -R username:users /home/username/.kde

should do the trick. However, I'm not sure which the *buntus do these days so you'd better check which is applicable.

Also, not sure how you backed things up. I always use the cp -a command to avoid mix ups with rights.

The command "sudo chown -R username:users /home/username/.kde" can be run through the good system using the path to the /.kde of the crashed one? (it is clear?). The problem is that I can not run this on the crashed system, since its don't starts anymore (anyway, I will try to log in the system without be loged in KDE, it may works)...

I will also try the cp -a command. If I understand well, this command keeps all the rights configurations of the files to be copied? That is very good.

I will be back with the results of tests..
Thank you