Re: What are these folders in home?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: What are these folders in home?
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:50:01 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] fsqmlk$973$1@ger.gmane.org>
References: <[🔎] 880dece00803310028s303eb960rb3870866769ce0a4@mail.gmail.com> <[🔎] 47F094DB.60108@gmail.com> <[🔎] 880dece00803310245w4bb0081j1d35e61a18e41c51@mail.gmail.com> <[🔎] 200803311159.57710.tchatelet@free.fr> <[🔎] 89b35b8d0803310422g7e229022l97867cecc5fcbfb7@mail.gmail.com>

paragasu wrote:

> AFAIK,
> you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files.
> the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you
> can login
> just fine.
> 

One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all
the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a
bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise.

raju
-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Reply to:

Follow-Ups:
- Re: What are these folders in home?
  - From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
- how to reset desktop env. config? (was: Re: What are these folders in home?)
  - From: "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>

References:
- What are these folders in home?
  - From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>
- Re: What are these folders in home?
  - From: Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>
- Re: What are these folders in home?
  - From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>
- Re: What are these folders in home?
  - From: Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>
- Re: What are these folders in home?
  - From: paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com>

Prev by Date: dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created
Next by Date: Dovecot and Resolvconf issues
Previous by thread: Re: What are these folders in home?
Next by thread: Re: What are these folders in home?
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread