From kde-devel  Thu May 31 16:05:28 2001
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:05:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE deleted all my bookmarks. Bad info in dialog box.
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On Thursday 31 May 2001 09:46, Arni Ingimundarson wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just want to point out a very anoying/bad info in a KDE (first time)
> startup dialog box.
>
> I installed redhat rawhide a few months ago (with KDE 2.1) and today I
> updated KDE with redhats 7.1 KDE 2.1.1 rpms.  When I originaly switched to
> KDE 2 from KDE 1 there were some KDE 1 configs files still around.
>
> After I installed all KDE rpms and started KDE again I was confronted with
> a dialog box saying KDE had found some KDE 1.x config files and offered me
> 3 options: Remove, Try_to_adapt or ignore.  Because it recommended removing
> the old config files I (sadly) choose that option.  I thought that loosing
> some of my setup wouldn't be all bad and I would get a more cleaner setup.
>
> Cleaner setup is the right phrase for it, because it delete everything in
> .kde and Desktop, and with it all my bookmarks and files I had temporary
> placed on my desktop.

   Yes this happened to me too on one of my machines.  It's desktopconv and 
it's not a part of KDE itself.  It just wiped the .kde directory and put a 
skeleton in it's place.  Needless to say I was not amused, but at least I had 
a 1 day old backup.

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George Staikos

 
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