frmrick@xxxxxxxxxxx's messages: > Quoting Franklin <franklin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Tim Johnson's messages: > > > Hi: > > > > > > I will soon be retiring this machine > > > KDE 3.2.3, KMail 1.6.2, slackware 10.0 > > > and replacing it with a new one. > > > > > > This will be ubuntu 7.04 (amd_64) with KDE 3.5.6 and > > > KMail 1.9.6 > > > > > > Question: > > > Can I copy my ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail to the same path on the > > > new machine and retain the same configuration. > > > > configuration: > > ~/.kde/share/config/kmail* > > > > mail data: > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail > > > > copy the above folders and you'll keep your configuration and mail. > > Of course you'd better backup your ~/.kde first if possible, just in > > case. > > <snip> > To keep any mail you'd need to copy over your ~/Mail directory and for > email address' you'll need a directory in ~/.kde which I believe is called > kabc but I can't check to be ceetain if that's the correct name right now. > > Usually when I install a new slack system I just copy over my entire .kde > directory to save all my settings for all aps but kde in slack is set up > just as kde developers intended some other distros modify to suit and I > can't say if that is the case with ubuntu > kabc folder is storing the contacts' information which saved in the KAddressBook. And yes, if you want to keep your contacts' information, you also need to copy ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc. For KAddressbook's configuration it might be in the ~/.kde/share/config/kaddressbook*. Regards, Franklin
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