[kde-linux] deleted .kde

[Aashish Chaudhary]

David,

I tried that and made sure that it belongs to me. I also tried making a tar
of my other account and untar it to my home directory.

Thanks for your help.

~Aashish



On Dec 27, 2007 4:26 AM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> You'll also need to change ownership of your copied .kde folder - it
> needs to belong to the correct user ID. On my Debian systems (using
> private groups), that would be "chown -R your_user_ID:your_user_ID
> ~.kde" for the .kde folder and everything in it.
>
> Discovered that the hard way, after copying my home folder to a network
> share for backup, and having to copy it back after replacing an old
> Debian installation with a new Etch. ;-)
>
> Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > unfortunately our server does not back up our home dir.
> >
> > Now when I login with kde session all I get is blank screen ( in this
> > case a blue screen ) and nothing happens.
> >
> > I also tried copying .kde folder from my other account and that did the
> > same ( I changes the username to my username in some of the files.. ) ..
> >
> > ~Regards,
> > Aashish
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 26, 2007 7:29 AM, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at
> > <mailto:kevin.krammer at gmx.at>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> >      > Hi,
> >      >
> >      > Accidentally I deleted .kde folder and now I am unable to use KDE
> >     desktop.
> >      > I tried various methods to restore but no luck. Since the account
> >     is on
> >      > server I cannot delete and recreate my account.
> >
> >     While it means that you lost all your data (unless the server has
> >     backups), it
> >     shouldn't be a problem for startup.
> >     The .kde directory (or whereever $KDEHOME points to) is
> >     automatically created
> >     if it doesn't exists.
> >
> >     Do you get any error messages?
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Kevin
> >
> >     --
> >     Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> >     KDE user support, developer mentoring
>
> And general all-around good guy.
>
> --
> David
> gnome at hawaii.rr.com
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