-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 21:52, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
- Harry G (hg57@comcast.net) [030501 19:45]: ->I have 4 users on a Suse 8.1 machine, primararily using KDE. One has a lot of ->screwed up settings for printing, menus, etc., but there are a lot of items ->that would take a while to rebuild. -> ->Can I: -> ->1. Create a new user -> ->2. Copy all needed data from the old one to the new one -> ->3. Delete/rename the old one's directory -> ->4. Rename the new one to the old name -> ->Will this work?
You can do this. Remove all KDE related directories in /tmp then go into each home directory and remove .kde and .mcop*. These directories will be recreated when the user logs back in. They will be the default SuSE settings but at least it should fix things that have been messed up. It's easier then creating a new user and selectively copying.
Yep. I can personally atest to that. I had been mucking about alot with my fonts and other things (can't help my self - gotta push the envelope. How else will I learn [don't answer that :) ] ). The trick is to know where all the files you want are, as well as, the ones you don't want. In otherwords, I know where all my kmail, filter, and pgp settings are so BAM - no problem. But on occassion I have had problems with konq and this is were it can get tricky. Some of the files were alright, but it only takes one bad config file to put me back were I was before. I have learned two things from this. A) don't overwrite the file, rename the new one (aka <something>"-bkup") and then move the files. B: do this incrementally, one by one if possible, so you'll know which file/config was messed up. Not only will this save you from frustrations (by once again wondering "just which one of the files is bad"?), but you'll be able, by knowing which file is bad, to compare it to a pristine file and then perhaps learn what went wrong. Much easier to keep the /home/<username> intact and start from there. Worst comes to worst you can make another /home/<username-redo> and then move the important stuff back (again -being careful not to put the kludged stuff in the new dir). Just my $0.02. :) Cheers, Curtis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+szdj7WVLiDrqeksRAv0JAKDp6VkQT7HBQesYSXwKaY3H4rrvKwCgwZep 3HeO+0V3CnfKGZsXltOfuAM= =H5Ho -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----