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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] KDE update problems? Maybe?</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Tue Sep 11 10:28:43 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 10/09/2012 21:45, Marc Paré wrote:
><i> Le 2012-09-10 06:04, Shlomi Fish a écrit :
</I>>><i> Hi Marc,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400
</I>>><i> Marc Paré<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marc at marcpare.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Which KDE update?
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had
</I>>>><i> to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one
</I>>>><i> has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays
</I>>>><i> and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of
</I>>>><i> WOW);
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your
</I>>><i> settings.
</I>>><i> You can instead move it away using the "mv" command:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv</A>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you
</I>>><i> shouldn't do
</I>>><i> so in the future).
</I>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This would be great if you could give a little more detail for people
</I>><i> (like me) who would not know what to mv. I did not know where the
</I>><i> problem was coming from and it was just easier (time-wise) to reset the
</I>><i> desktop and KDE soft.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Can you give me an example of what I would do in these circumstances?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Cheers,
</I>><i>
</I>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
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