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Original von LinuxPimp


Through misuse by me, i need to reinstall the OS. Problem is i have all my apointments, contacts and history/emails that i just cannot lose.

Where are these kept and how can i restore them to a clean, new setup?

I have tried taring ~/.kde and restoring that in the past, but it dodn't work.

Most of the configuration and app data are indeed stored under ~/.kde, but emails are in a different location. Typically they're under ~/Mail, ~/mail, ~/.Mail or ~/.mail. I'm assuming here that you're downloading emails to your local machine.

Also, if you are backing up mail from any of those above directories which have been placed there by kmail you might have some trouble copying them.

When i last tried it, KMail puts funny characters in the filename, such as colons and semi-colons, and didn't allow me to copy the files properly.

I had to batch rename them...

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Original von seb

I had to batch rename them...

You like the hard way .
Now you know that you can make a .tar with them and avoid those problems.

With regards to backup and restore of address book does anyone know the exact file that contains the address book? I've looked in ~/.kde but can not locate the exact file to backup. Thanks.

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Original von brucehohl

With regards to backup and restore of address book does anyone know the exact file that contains the address book? I've looked in ~/.kde but can not locate the exact file to backup. Thanks.

Check ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

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Original von seb

Also, if you are backing up mail from any of those above directories which have been placed there by kmail you might have some trouble copying them.

When i last tried it, KMail puts funny characters in the filename, such as colons and semi-colons, and didn't allow me to copy the files properly.

I had to batch rename them...

I always edit kmailrc on the tab [General]
Folders=/placeto/store/mails

And found a little script to make a backup and edit this a bit

#!/bin/bash

echo "Backup script voor mail"
# Create a compressed backup of your home directory in a file named
# backup.tar.gz or backup.tar.bz2 depending on the compression scheme used.

DATE=`date +%d%m%Y`
BACKUP_DIRS=/media/backup/mail
BACKUP_FILE=/home/yourhome/.kde/share/config/kmailrc

# We do a BZipped backup here...
tar cvjf /media/backup/mailbackup/mail.tar.bz2$DATE $BACKUP_DIRS
tar cvjf /media/backup/mailbackup/kmailrc.tar.bz2$DATE $BACKUP_FILE

echo "backup file OK"

> Check ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

Thanks for this .