[Mageia-discuss] KDE update problems? Maybe?

Tue Sep 11 10:28:43 CEST 2012

On 10/09/2012 21:45, Marc Paré wrote:
+> Le 2012-09-10 06:04, Shlomi Fish a écrit :
+>> Hi Marc,
+>>
+>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400
+>> Marc Paré<marc at marcpare.com>  wrote:
+>>
+>>> I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update,
+>>
+>> Which KDE update?
+>>
+>>> I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had
+>>> to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one
+>>> has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays
+>>> and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of
+>>> WOW);
+>>
+>> Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your
+>> settings.
+>> You can instead move it away using the "mv" command:
+>>
+>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv
+>>
+>> I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you
+>> shouldn't do
+>> so in the future).
+>>
+> 
+> This would be great if you could give a little more detail for people
+> (like me) who would not know what to mv. I did not know where the
+> problem was coming from and it was just easier (time-wise) to reset the
+> desktop and KDE soft.
+> 
+> Can you give me an example of what I would do in these circumstances?
+> 
+> Cheers,
+> 
+mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-old
+
+When you restart KDE you will have lost all your settings, but you can
+then restore from the old one, in bite-size pieces, until you hit a
+problem.  At that point, delete the bit you just restored (rollback) and
+you should be fine.
+
+Anne
+Anne
+
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