Move collection to new distro

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Justin,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 16:37, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> Justin Brown wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was using Kubuntu with the latest stable release (2.1.1 I think), but
>> I decided to try Fedora for a while. I installed Amarok on Fedora
>> (2.1.1), and then copied over my .kde folder from my old home directory.
>> Problem is that Amarok isn't recognizing it. The weird part is that it
>> does sometimes; it will load the last playlist from my old system, but
>> my collection is never imported. Do I need to "link" amarok to my old
>> collection somehow or are there config files outside of .kde that need
>> to be copied?
>> Keep up the great work. i'm very excited for 2.2!
>
> Not sure -- everything should be fine. Your KDE home dir doesn't happen
> to live in ~/.kde4 in one or the other distros, does it, so maybe Fedora
> thinks that ~/.kde is your KDE3 dir?

I wonder if it's not simply a permission problem, IIRC Fedora (and
Mandriva) starts user numbering at 500 IIRC and Kubuntu (like Debian)
starts at 1000. So maybe just changing the owner can solve the issue.


Regards, Myriam.
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