2009/12/21 Clayton :

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 20:25, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Hi, just for the sake of normalization i'm thinking about installing 11.2 on my laptop that's running 11.0 with KDE3. How would be the best route (I mean painless) to migrate all my KDE3 appliacation data without screwing the new KDE4 installation?. Usually i go for a fresh installation, preserving my home filesystem. The most important part are my email accounts, saved emails and notes from knotes ...

The absolute safest is to install 11.0 alongside 11.2, and use a different username for 11.2. Then copy your critical data over one step at a time. If things fail to go as planned you can always boot back into your old environment.

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The thing is, what would be "copy your critical data"?, do I need to export from kontact in 11.0 and import in kontact in 11.2?, should I just move files from ~/.kde to ~/.kde4 and hope it just picks up configuration and data from there without screwing kde4?

I am using Kmail. My solution is to have /MAIL directory in my home participation. Just move my kmail directory such as it is found under /.kde4/share/apps/ into this directory and symlink this moved directory into the old /.kde4/share/apps/ That MAIL directory has now the complete set of emails as it is in 11.1. In my 11.2 setup I have the same UID (1000) so after the installation of 11.2 I just removed the kmail directory and symlink it with the kmail directory in /MAIL Works like a charm and it does not matter if I work in 11.1 or 11.2. All the emails are there. Do the same with my Documents. Still do the filter stuff new every time because I am not sure if the versions of Kmail differ in the handling of filtering etc. --- Pentium III Powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop KDE: 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4) "release 2" 22:16pm up 3 days 5:57, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.84, 1.58 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org