Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 16/07/2014 18:45, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>> easiest way to test: new user. Copy over config files until problem occurs. >>> <doh> >>> Yes of course, that's the best way. Didn't think of that >>> >>> >> I just did my KDE upgrade so I renamed the .kde4 directory. I logged >> in, set up enough that I could test things and then logged out. When I >> logged back in, it worked like it should. Let's see how long that lasts. >> >> Alan, make sure you change the permissions on those file. I have a test >> account that I rarely use as well. In the past, I had to change the >> owner from dale to dale2 which is my account names. Usually the group >> is the same so the owner is all that needs changing. > Why change the permissions? They must be rw for the user using them > which means chmod 6xx, the group being entirely irrelevant as it will > never be referenced. If the new user is doing the copy then they will be > owned by that new user anyway. "cp -a" will just always do the right > thing in this case :-) > >
Well, I usually copy as root which leaves the permissions the same. Since you do it as user then you are right. Dale :-) :-)
