[kde-linux] upgrading to KDE 4.2.4

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On Friday 04 December 2009 18:39:04 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 04 December 2009 09:56:13 David Jarvie wrote:
> > On Fri, December 4, 2009 4:32 am, Duncan wrote:
> > > Pablo Sanchez posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:26:57 -0500 as excerpted:
> > >> On Thursday 03 December 2009 at 8:43 pm, Louis Hinman penned about
> > >> "[kde-linux] upgrading to KDE 4.2.4"
> > >>
> > >>> ... how do I backup the data and setttings in KMail, KOrganizer, and
> > >>> Konqueror and migrate it all to 4.2.4?
> > >>
> > >> Hi Lou,
> > >>
> > >> I believe all you'll need to do is rename `~/.kde' to be `~/.kde4'  Or
> > >> if you have spare disk space, you can be super careful and `cp -rad
> > >> ~/.kde ~/.kde4'
> > >>
> > >> You'll want to do either when you're not logged in as yourself.  You
> > >> might want to boot up at level three - pass `3' to `grub'
> > >>
> > >> Please let others respond in case I'm wrong though.  :)
> >
> > It's not guaranteed that your kmail emails are stored in ~/.kde. If you
> > have migrated in the past from older KDE versions, they could be in
> > ~/Mail, or somewhere else. Look in ~/.kde/share/kmailrc (I think) to find
> > the location if you have problems locating your emails.
> 
> Better still, back up the whole of your /home/you directory to a usb
>  pen-drive if at all possible.  If you have space to spare, back up /etc as
>  well.
> 
> Anne
> 
A thing to wish for would be that KDE apps had a better separation of 
data/documents a user creates and other support files.
Then it had been easy to just have data in a separate partition that could be 
mounted in different systems and used by different applications. As standard 
not with manual work as now.
Now we have all data in a /local and own apps/script in /usr/local. Always 
there whatever system we install or boot.

IE. Think if open Office stored all documents under .ooo3.

A new clean .kde? is not the same as an upgrade one. If each app could have a 
little import option. Same have but rudimentary. You need to find the files  
yourself.