KDE forgets some settings?

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I am experiencing a rather weird and annoying issue — KDE seems to forget some settings. It used to be just calendar reminders (shown in the notifications), now something similar is happening to the “places” in Dolphin.
My current Plasma version is 6.2.5, on Slowroll 20250205.

Places: after each boot the “places” in the left panel below the usual “Home”, “Desktop” contain several entries from mounted Cryptomator FUSE volumes. Sometimes the entries are even duplicated, each mounted volume is shown twice. Sometimes just once. Every morning i right click and choose “hide”, which hides them. Yet after reboot they come back.

Calendar notifications: after every boot notifications show a whole bunch of reminders for long passed events. Some notifications even seem to be duplicated. Once they pop up on the screen I can either close them or wait for them to expire, so that they hide automatically. As there are a lot of them, it takes a long time or a lot of clicking. These notifications remain in the notification history (see screenshot), which is available from the system tray. Right now I can see 63 calendar reminders stashed there, with the oldest being from 2024-12-09. This is not ideal UX, right? :slight_smile:

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I am not sure where to look for solutions. Which area, which settings govern those things?

Thank you

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Hi, is it possible you have Dolphin open when shutting down the computer at the end of the day?
Dolphin stores settings when it is closed in a normal way, not by shutting down the OS when Dolphin is still running.
I would advise to delete all the entries in the Places panel, then close Dolphin and re-open it.
Add the items into the places panel which you want to have there and once again close Dolphin, then re-open it again.
It should be correct now, if not something else is wrong in your setup.

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At least when you shutdown from the desktop, the desktop is closed first and with it any Dolphin instance that may still be running. Thus at the system shutdown that follows, no Dolphin will be running anymore.

I assume that even when the shutdown is done by root with a command, the shutdown sequence will still be to signal the desktop to do something (being log out the user).

I may add that from the OP’s description it is not quite clear if things happen after logout/login, or after logout≥shutdown/boot→login. Also it is not clear if this is for one particular user or for all KDE users of the system.