Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

Migrating kde data from kde3 to kde4

Stan Goodman stan.goodman at hashkedim.com
Sun Jun 13 11:03:26 IDT 2010


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
> display the contacts.
> I would recommend to copy also all related to kmobiletools since in
>  resent version it dosn't exist anymore.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Stan Goodman
> 
> <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com>wrote:
> > 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,
> > 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 am not at all sure of how they
> > interrelate.
> >
> > I would be grateful to anyone for comments, advice, and warnings on
> > migrating kde data from one system to the other.

What I have is 4.3.5.

Mobile tools are not an issue, as I don't have a mobile phone.

What I had intended to do was to copy over the .kde4 directory in toto to 
the same directory in the new system. The question really is what, if 
anything, do I need to do with the .kde directory. 

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel



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