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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    [kdepim-users] Re: Need help for distribution change
From:       Matej Cepl <cepl () surfbest ! net>
Date:       2005-02-18 17:40:02
Message-ID: 35769938.4MdHPUFamd () blahoslav ! ceplovi ! cz
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Piotr Zembrowski wrote:
> Not the most elegant solution perhaps, but I burned the whole '.Mail'
> directory on a CD-ROM, using K3b, then copied it back after
> re-installing the system from scratch.  There was a tiny problem with
> permissions: KMail couldn't read the message files until I manually
> chmod'ed them.

You need also ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail directory and
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc.

For preserving rights, ownerships, etc. use tar (possibly neatly packaged in
KDE's ark) and then archive somewhere only the tar.gz file.

Matej

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