On Wednesday, 2010-06-16, cobaco wrote: > On 2010-06-15, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I'm getting a new computer in the next few days and, of course, I need > > to move my data from the old to the new one. > > > > In the past, I have simply copied copied ~/.kde, but I hope to find > > another way, this time. Over the years, quite a bit of cruft has > > accumulated in that directory and I'd like to get rid of that. Besides, > > KDE has grown beyond its own directory and puts data in, e.g., ~/.local. > > -- Is the safest solution to copy /home in its entirety and sort out the > > cruft manually? > > think the opposite approach works better: start fresh and copy over just > the bits you don't want to redo > > > So, I'm wondering, whether there is an "official" way of copying data? > > What's been working for others on this list? > > I did the above approach a couple of weeks ago for new lappie, basically I > started fresh except for kmail, akregator and kwallet (note that kmail will > be regenerating all indexes on startup in this case which can take a while > if you have a lot of mail) I think you can avoid that by creating an archive (e.g. using tar) of the mail directory and restoring that on the new account/computer. something like tar xvf kmail.tar .kde/share/apps/kmail .kde/share/config/kmailrc \ .kde/share/config/kmail.notifyrc \ .kde/share/config/emailidentities .kde/share/config/mailtransports Cheers, Kevin
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