[Kde-pim] Migrating pim configuration

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 27 July 2009, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Monday 27 July 2009 09:01, Horacio wrote:
> > Not sure if this is the mailing list to ask user questions but I
> > could not find a kdepim-users mailing list.
>
> There is indeed a kdepim-users mailing list - it's listed at
> http://lists.kde.org.

and also at http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/


> > With KDE4.2.4 installed using default Kubuntu packages I use rsync
> > to keep my
> > pim configuration and data in sync between my desktop at home and
> > at work.
> >
> > This is a little cumbersome but works pretty well. Unfortunately
> > recently I installed a new laptop with Kubuntu 9.04 and no matter
> > what I do, even copy my
> > whole home directory to the laptop, all kde pim applications do not
> > detect my configurations.
> >
> > For example kmail has no accounts configured, akregator has no
> > feeds registered and the address book is empty. Below you can see
> > the list of files
> > and directories I rsync. Is there any other files/dirs I need to
> > copy in order
> > to migrate my PIM data from one machine to another without having
> > to configure each application manually?
> >
> > .kde/share/apps/kmail/
[snip]
> > .kde/share/config/basketrc
>
> Do you perhaps have different UIDs on the two machines, so that the
> user doesn't have the necessary read/write permissions on the files
> you have copied over? It should work if the files belong to the
> correct user.

Or could it be that on one of the two machines ~/.kde4 is used instead 
of ~/.kde?


Regards,
Ingo
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