.kde4 folder - safe to remove?

[Snowhog]

Need to know if it is safe to remove the hidden .kde4 directory. I'm running 8.10 w/KDE 4.2.00 after a successful upgrade from KDE 4.1.4.

[dibl]

Re: .kde4 folder - safe to remove?

Probably it's a "YES", but I'd say first rename it, and let it sit there a few days until you're sure nothing in KDE 4.2 is affected by the loss of it.

[toad]

Re: .kde4 folder - safe to remove?

If you don't use Kontact and all the stuff that it entails such as kaddressbook, kalendar, akregator, kmail to name but a few you're ready to roll and rename as dibl suggested. Otherwise you should link/copy relevant files in ~/.kde4/share/apps/ and ~/.kde4/share/config.

And if you don't use kontact I'd be interested in your information management (if you don't mind me asking and getting WAY off topic). I use kmail, kalendar and its to-do notes, akregator for RSS and the marvellous kaddressbook as a matter of course. While I love them, I hate the way they are spread throughout the ~/.kde4 directory and wouldn't mind another way of dealing with things.

[Sunny Rabbiera]

Re: .kde4 folder - safe to remove?

Yeh it should be safe, plus if you use kde 4.1 and up it uses the .kde folder...
but just in case back up

[Snowhog]

Re: .kde4 folder - safe to remove?

toad@

Yes, I use Kontact as my PIM. Actually, I only use the Address Book and KMail, but it's the 'suite' for such that is installed. So, Kontact is installed in the .kde4 folder structure?

[toad]

Re: .kde4 folder - safe to remove?

YEAH! It is all over the place! Go into ~/.kde4/share/config and you will find kmailrc (has all your email settings!) and kaddressbookrc - these being the only ones you require. Copy those over to your new kde(4) directory!

Same goes for ~/.kde4/share/apps - this time you are dealing with folders. The kmail folder contains all your mails and kmail directory structure and kabc has your addresses in it.

FWIIW - I keep all those "vital statistics" in a different partition (called personal) and link the files to the relevant programmes - works a treat with korganizer also. I back up my personal partition across both my hard drives every 15 minutes. Call me paranoid and at times I really think it is more bother than it is worth.

Then again I always get windows customers who have lost all their data for some reason or another (of course they assure me that they have it all backed up - just not available right now) and who urgently require a copy of that email from 1993 - and I let them have it

Ah, it feels good...

[muzicman0]

Re: .kde4 folder - safe to remove?

I also use intrepid, and don't have a .kde4 folder...did you upgrade from 8.04? I remember having a .kde4 folder when I was using 8.04, but after a fresh install, I had only .kde.
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