Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On 6/13/10, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: If it were not for the great difference between the two kde versions, I would simply carry over the .kde directory, and be assured that I had captured all the data. But the v11.1 system contains both .kde and .kde4 directories, and I

Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Stan Goodman
I have installed oS v11.2 on a clean HD in a box that also contains another HD which contains v11.1/kde3. I want to copy the data from the old system to the newer one, which is no problem except for the data of the kde apps. If it were not for the great difference between the two kde versions,

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Boris shtrasman
If you are going to use kde 4.4 make sure to copy your resource files for example if you are using kaddressbook backup the file : ** *.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf* After resent upgrade (from 4.3.4 to 4.4.3) there was a bug that did not display the contacts. I would recommend to copy also all

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 13 June 2010 10:20:20 Boris shtrasman wrote: If you are going to use kde 4.4 make sure to copy your resource files for example if you are using kaddressbook backup the file : ** *.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf* After resent upgrade (from 4.3.4 to 4.4.3) there was a bug that did not

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
Stan, for KDE 3 - 4 I copy over only the individual apps' settings, such as Kmail. Those should be in ~/.kde[4]/share/apps. You can copy over that whole directory, but I prefer doing it app by app. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 13 June 2010 19:35:59 you wrote: On 6/13/10, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: If it were not for the great difference between the two kde versions, I would simply carry over the .kde directory, and be assured that I had captured all the data. But the v11.1 system

Re: Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

2010-06-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 June 2010 00:03, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: I too keep /home on a separate partition, and have thought about keeping the same /home partition intact across upgrades, but I have never dared to do so. So my situation is different enough from yours that I still need to