On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:06, guenther wrote: Guenther - As usual, you are right. > > Well, I can not believe, there is nothing besides Desktop and Documents > in your $HOME, if you did use GNOME at all with that account. Even > without using GNOME at all, there very likely are hidden dot files by > default. And I highly doubt, that Ubuntu patched GConf to use a > different directory...
I don't know why Nautilus is not showing the hidden directories and files since, as I said, I clicked the "show hidden" option. > > There sure is no evolution (1.4.x style, not hidden) dir -- cause you > never used this old version on the new account. FWIW, if that directory > doesn't exist, you don't need to delete it. ;-) But you need to copy > that dir (as mentioned in the detailed discussion) to make Evolution > migrate that data. Right, this part I got, too. > > Nautilus just failed for me too, to display the hidden dot files -- > until I opened a new Nautilus window after changing the displaying > option. Reloading the dirs contents did not change anything. This is a > Nautilus bug... > > Nonetheless, they do exist: Open a terminal and use the command > 'ls -a ~' to see for yourself. This will list all the hidden > directories, no matter what Nautilus displays... > Yes, this shows everything that Nautilus didn't show. > Hope this clears things up... I'll report back on the results. Many thanks again. Kelly -- Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
