Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:37 +0200, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Clayton wrote:
> >Wouldn't it be better to remove the hidden Kopete config file in your
> >/home directory?  If you remove the application and reinstall it, all
> >the problems you're having probably won't be corrected...  Linux isn't
> >Windows.  If an application worked initially, and you haven't tinkered
> >with the installed files (for which you'd need to be root to do) then
> >there is probably nothign wrong with the installed application. 
> >Delete the hidden .kopete folder, and restart Kopete... it will be
> >back it's inital settings as if you had just installed it.  Setup your
> >MSN account again, and things should work again.
> >
> >  
> 
> Sounds very easy, but .kopete is not to be found in the /home directory ?
Your "home" directory is not /home but rather /home/your_user_name
Look in -your- home directory for .kopete.

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Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
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