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Past Experience with Micro$oft Windows has shown that when software is re-installed, or accounts reset (i.e. wiping out the profile and starting again), non-configuration data that is stored in with the configuration data (the 'outlook.pst' file in the Micro$oft case) is often overlooked and deleted.

I have recently installed and configured the Kontact suite, and have noticed that this appears to do exactly the same thing - i.e. bury important files (knotes, kabc, etc) in with the .kde configuration.

I think it is likely that people may 'blow away' the .kde tree to reset a corrupt kde configuration, or overlook the dot files (.Mail and .kde) when backing up an account.

Would it be worth considering moving data files away out of the .kde tree into a different directory - say korganise, or kde-data to avoid these potential hazards?

Steve Clarke

It's all quite logical when put like that

Personally, I like to keep a large distance between configuration (which I don't mind losing), and data (which I do). I like to see config data as dot files, and real useful data as normal files/directories.

Now I understand how tidy the .kde hierarchy actually is, a simple move of 'apps' and '.Mail, and a couple of softlinks makes me very happy.

Thanks for your informative response.

Regards,

Steve Clarke