On Tuesday 19 May 2009 23:07:10 Rick Miles wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:36:49 Rick Miles wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 04:54:15 pm Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 2009-05-19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 02:48:23 Rick Miles wrote: > > > > > Can anyone provide instructions for migrating my kmail stuff from > > > > > kde3 to kde4? > > > > > > > > > > Besides the obvious ~/Mail directory what needs to be moved from > > > > > ~/.kde? ... or indeed what can be moved safely? > > > > > > You only need to copy ~/Mail if you don't want to use that location any > > > longer. > > > > > > > You can copy any or all of ~/.kde/share/apps and :/kde/share/config. > > > > I'm using the same /home/rick directory for both my stable (12.2) and > > beta (current) slackware installs this was never before with kde.3 even > > though versions were different. I wasn't an "aware" linux user when > > things went from kde2 to 3 so I can't say what problems there might have > > been but I know that not all kde3 application configs worked well in in > > the kde-4.2.2 environment, konsole, kate and konqueror to name three I > > had problems with last time around > > > > > You can even copy or rename .kde/ > > > > I have a .kde3 and a .kde4 and a script that symlinks a .kde to one or > > the other depending on which version of kde is installed on the system. > > Tested fine for 5 or 6 logins each way and was working well thereafter, > > I'm sure that's not the problem > > > > > It is quite weird though that you would have to copy anything at all. > > > While some distributions decided to use a different base directory for > > > KDE4, they usually also provide a migration tool which does the > > > copying. > > > > This is Slackware which ships everything vanilla just as upstream > > released it albeit after qt4 and kde4 came out of testing there are > > kde-compatability packages in extra if one wants to install them to run > > legacy kde3 aps on 4 > > > > > > > If you missed my comments in a previous thread I have lost my > > > > > filters, > > > > > > > > I would guess that they are in one of the config files. > > > > > > Correct, kmailrc > > > > I'll have another go at this again tonight (maybe) There may have also > > been a non-kde issue involved as somehow I had started an arecord script > > in the background and had a couple whooping great .wav's in my home > > directory taking that partition just about up to 100%. I did not know > > this untill I hit the icon to check mail and got a 'can't open, disk > > ful'l message. I killed the proccess deleted the .wav's and when I next > > tried kmail it said there was no user and asked if I wanted to configure > > one. I killed that popup to prevent any possible overwrites but when > > kmail came up everything had changed although my user and isp details > > remained intact. > > > > Dunno > > > > Oh, Hi Anne, thanks for the input as well. > > I figured I'd try to configure the kmail in 4.2.3 as is/was I was not able > to get the traditional list view by date on a single line but was able to > get a double line (subject and sender) by date in most folders although > some remained partially threaded and were missing posts which were visible > in kde-3.5.10. > > I have copied over the kde-3.5.10 configs again and this has held together > for several transits between the two versions. In aggregation, I have Activity by Date, threaded, then using the configure button, on Groups, threading and sorting, grouping none threading perfect by references and by subject I don't recall having to change anything else. HTH Anne
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