[Mageia-discuss] KDE update problems? Maybe?

[Anne Wilson]

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<marc at marcpare.com>  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


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