I’ve been trying to sort out my Kmail, Knode, etc., problems with which
files they are using - those in .kde or the ones in .kde4 and thought I’d
sorted by moving files I could identify as being (wrongly) used, renaming
folders, then moving what seemed to be derelict folders into Trash. All
continued to work well so I emptied Trash. Big mistake! The applications had
apparently kept track of the various moves and renames and continued to use
the files when in Trash, so when it was emptied all hell broke loose.
Now I’ve restored from backup and I’m back where I was - with a shed-load of
mostly redundant files and a small number of vital ones in the wrong place.
I found life much simpler with a nice big mainframe system running OS/390.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
buy a bigger hard drive and don’t sweat the dupes…
remember, this IS two year life openSUSE…you will need to
reinstall soon anyway.
keep kde4 off the machine…if you can’t live with that then never
log into it with your ‘real’ user account (and get all that junk in
…kde4 added), instead just add a different user for kde4 (and never
sign into that account using kde3…sure you won’t be able use your
‘real’ email address book in kde4…but, for now what is kde4 good
for anyway??
next install, pack away (to keep but not let the installer find)
your /home…after install STRICTLY follow #3, and carefully open the
packed away and find (for example) your emails or whatever and copy
them over to your fresh, uncluttered /home…
oh, i also don’t personally recommend logging out of KDE3 and then
back into Gnome…there seems to ALWAYS be something that will get
the setting screwed a little…like volume control gets ‘stuck’ until
you find the magic…again…
ymmv…and, you could alway go back a tape punch…
–
brassy
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Graham P Davis adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 31 Jul 2009 07:23 to write:
> brassy wrote:
>
>> ymmv…and, you could alway go back a tape punch…
>
> I’ve got one - a hand punch for manually correcting paper tape. I’ve also
> got hundreds of punch cards - useful for jotting notes.
>
I can still read those ( tape and card ) without the aid of a safety net (
but nowadays I do need glasses )
Ah those were the days, remote login with a telex machine to an IBM
mainframe using acoustic coupler, dial listen for squeaks and slam handset
into rubber cups, await acks and then run the tape ( FORTRAN mostly ) come
back in x amount of hours for results, check errors, correct errors, rinse
repeat.
Get printout of pretty lady with hardly any clothes on, all on a humongous
line printer, Oh what fun, however I did like playing golf on it.
Nurse where are my slippers and blanket?
–
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
