Re: What are these folders in home?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:08:47 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients.

My Sylpheed (currently 2.5.0beta1 on Sid, but I believe it's been like
this for a while) stores mail by default in ~/Mail, not
under ~/.sylpheed*, although there is some important stuff in the
latter location(s), most notably the addressbooks.

> Regards,
> Andrei

Celejar
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