<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Maiandra GD'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:36:49 Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 04:54:15 pm Kevin Krammer wrote:<br>
> > On Tuesday, 2009-05-19, Anne Wilson wrote:<br>
> > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 02:48:23 Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> > > > Can anyone provide instructions for migrating my kmail stuff from<br>
> > > > kde3 to kde4?<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Besides the obvious ~/Mail directory what needs to be moved from<br>
> > > > ~/.kde? ... or indeed what can be moved safely?<br>
> ><br>
> > You only need to copy ~/Mail if you don't want to use that location any<br>
> > longer.<br>
> ><br>
> > > You can copy any or all of ~/.kde/share/apps and :/kde/share/config.<br>
><br>
> I'm using the same /home/rick directory for both my stable (12.2) and beta<br>
> (current) slackware installs this was never before with kde.3 even though<br>
> versions were different. I wasn't an "aware" linux user when things went<br>
> from kde2 to 3 so I can't say what problems there might have been but I<br>
> know that not all kde3 application configs worked well in in the kde-4.2.2<br>
> environment, konsole, kate and konqueror to name three I had problems with<br>
> last time around<br>
><br>
> > You can even copy or rename .kde/<br>
><br>
> I have a .kde3 and a .kde4 and a script that symlinks a .kde to one or the<br>
> other depending on which version of kde is installed on the system. Tested<br>
> fine for 5 or 6 logins each way and was working well thereafter, I'm sure<br>
> that's not the problem<br>
><br>
> > It is quite weird though that you would have to copy anything at all.<br>
> > While some distributions decided to use a different base directory for<br>
> > KDE4, they usually also provide a migration tool which does the copying.<br>
><br>
> This is Slackware which ships everything vanilla just as upstream released<br>
> it albeit after qt4 and kde4 came out of testing there are<br>
> kde-compatability packages in extra if one wants to install them to run<br>
> legacy kde3 aps on 4<br>
><br>
> > > > If you missed my comments in a previous thread I have lost my<br>
> > > > filters,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I would guess that they are in one of the config files.<br>
> ><br>
> > Correct, kmailrc<br>
><br>
> I'll have another go at this again tonight (maybe) There may have also been<br>
> a non-kde issue involved as somehow I had started an arecord script in the<br>
> background and had a couple whooping great .wav's in my home directory<br>
> taking that partition just about up to 100%. I did not know this untill I<br>
> hit the icon to check mail and got a 'can't open, disk ful'l message. I<br>
> killed the proccess deleted the .wav's and when I next tried kmail it said<br>
> there was no user and asked if I wanted to configure one. I killed that<br>
> popup to prevent any possible overwrites but when kmail came up everything<br>
> had changed although my user and isp details remained intact.<br>
><br>
> Dunno<br>
><br>
> Oh, Hi Anne, thanks for the input as well.<br>
I figured I'd try to configure the kmail in 4.2.3 as is/was I was not able to get the traditional list view by date on a single line but was able to get a double line (subject and sender) by date in most folders although some remained partially threaded and were missing posts which were visible in kde-3.5.10.<br>
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-- <br>
Cheers,<br>
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