On Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 15:10:48, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 16 July 2014 05:43:10 O.Sinclair wrote: > > make sure you have hidden files visible - the subdirectories are now > > hidden > > mine are in /home/myuser/.local/share/.local-mail- > > directory/.whatevermailfolder (notice the dot in the beginning) and some > > of > > them are hidden folders, some not > > I have never quite understood why some files and directories inside .local > are hidden. You only go into .local when you need to find some mail > manually, and having them hidden just seems to be done to make life > difficult for the user! It is not hidden, the hiding is a result of convention used by Filemanager and file managment tools when dealing with directory entries beginning with a period. The structure, i.e. using a subdirectory starting with a period to indicate a sub folder, is a widely used one when it comes to Maildir storage. Another very common implementation of that is Maildir++ It is a form of disambiguation, e.g. protecting against a user creating a folder with names "new", "tmp" or "cur", which have special meanings in Maildir. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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