On 29.01.10 23:49:00, Karol Depka Pradzinski wrote: > Hi. > Foreword: I tried to search for a solution for this quite hard on Google and > Nabble with absolutely no results. Is it possible, that I am the only one > with > this problem? Nah... > > I cannot use my KMail (and possibly Kontact in general) data from Linux under > Windows because there are lots of files with colons in names (which are > illegal > chars for DOS/Windows file names). Possibly other illegal chars are there too. > What can I do? > Is there any "escape sequence" for these characters in kde-windows ? > Could I use KRename mass-rename? But rename to what? > > Examples of file names: > /home/karolrvn/Mail/sent-mail/cur/1257274396.1241.emLSY_2,S:2,S ( few > thousands of these)
This particular one is not a KDE problem, thats simply the maildir format which says that flags for the mails are to be separated by a colon (IIRC). There's nothing KDE or KMail can do about this, except allowing you to store your mails in a different format (like mbox). > Please help me. I can hardly use e-mail now, when on Windows, because of the > aforementioned problem. Leave your mails on a mailserver that has IMAP support would be a solution to your current problems. > If this issue is not resolved, I'm afraid, that my > (rather interesting) relationship with Kontact (and possibly KDE in general) > will end after many years and I will probably switch to something like > Thunderbird which seems 100% cross-platform. Yeah and it breaks as soon as you hit 2 or 4G on your mailboxes because it still uses the ancient outdated mbox format. Andreas -- You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite. _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
