Yesterday I switched on my laptop (SuSE 9.0), all as usual, KDE started to about 90 percent and froze suddenly. There was no other possibility than switching the laptop off using the power-off-switch. This was the first time KDE froze in that way. After that I wanted to start my laptop again, I put in my password and pressed return. A popup window told me that the DCOPserver did not run and I have to start it before. Then I looked into my home directory using mc and was rather surprised: ?.kde │ 0│ 01. Jan 1970 ?.kde.save │ 0│ 01. Jan 1970 The same (size 0, Date 01. Jan 1970 and a ? in front of the name) was with the directories qt, skel, Desktop and Mail! There is no way to delete this files. All my Mails and kde-preferences are gone! It seems that "only" this files of this user are destroyed. I installed another user at the same laptop and kde started without problems. Does someone know a possibility to get the destroyed directories back? My last backup of this files was from the middle of march. Rudi