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<[email protected]> 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 -- Need KDE Help? Visit http://userbase.kde.org or http://forum.kde.org
