[kde-linux] deleted .kde

[david]

I guess it didn't work?

Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: 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
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