I thought this subject would have been treated extensively before, but I
found .....

Yesterday my system had a kind of a crash (well, it blocked temporarily, I
got out of X with CTRL-ALT Backspace) and then I could shutdown. It all was
caused by one of my disks dropping out.

Anyway, this morning I started, all seemed well, but for my usual user-id,
KDE bounced out after a while. I checked for another user, all OK.

So I moved for my regular user mv .kde .kde.old and kde started OK.
Now I wanted my settings back, and as I want to be on the safe side, I won't
just copy the whole .kde back, so I started copying files and directories
back. That got me my Autostart back, my settings of Knode and some more.

But two problems I cannot find the solution for:
1. Firefox and Thunderbird start as if it all was the first time. Sure all
the xyz123-kind-of-name directories are there in ~/.mozilla and
~/.thunderbird, but KDE does not find where to find these when starting, so
it must miss some pointer file?
2. (a bit less important, but still) I did not find to restore my settings
for Konqueror, nor for my KDE most-recent-programs list.

All help is very much appreciated.

Herman Viaene
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herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:


> But two problems I cannot find the solution for:
> 1. Firefox and Thunderbird start as if it all was the first time. Sure all
> the xyz123-kind-of-name directories are there in ~/.mozilla and
> ~/.thunderbird, but KDE does not find where to find these when starting,
> so it must miss some pointer file?

Check the path in:
~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini

> 2. (a bit less important, but still) I did not find to restore my settings
> for Konqueror,

~/.kde/share/apps/konq*
~/.kde/share/config/konq*rc

> nor for my KDE most-recent-programs list.

~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments



Jim

James Kerr wrote:

> herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:
>
>
>> But two problems I cannot find the solution for:
>> 1. Firefox and Thunderbird start as if it all was the first time. Sure
>> all the xyz123-kind-of-name directories are there in ~/.mozilla and
>> ~/.thunderbird, but KDE does not find where to find these when starting,
>> so it must miss some pointer file?
>
> Check the path in:
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini

There had been made a new profile, I first tried to redirect FF to the old
one, but despite deleting the lock file, it was a no-go, kept
complaining "already running". I got more or less away by copying
bookmark.html and alike. Less than optimal, but I can live without.

> ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
This file looks :
General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=izash8xg.default

and
..thunderbird]$ ls -als
total 40
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 herman herman 4096 2007-01-30 15:41 ./
24 drwxr-xr-x 142 herman herman 20480 2008-06-27 16:20 ../
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 herman herman 335 2007-01-30 15:41 appreg
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 herman herman 4096 2008-06-27 16:53 izash8xg.default/
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 herman herman 94 2007-01-30 15:41 profiles.ini

I deleted the parentlock file, but no avail, TH comes up blank, i.e. with
the "create account" wizard
I also checked the config editor, and sure there is no reference found to
whatever accout or server, and surely I recognize the directories and files
in izash8xg.default, so why the hell??????

>
>> 2. (a bit less important, but still) I did not find to restore my
>> settings for Konqueror,
>
> ~/.kde/share/apps/konq*
> ~/.kde/share/config/konq*rc

Did the trick, I didn't try before ad I wasn't sure understanding all the
implications, tx a lot.
>
>> nor for my KDE most-recent-programs list.
>
> ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments
that was usefull as well, but not what I meant, I was asking for the list of
most-recent-used-programs, that you get on top of the KDE menu

Herman

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herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:

> James Kerr wrote:
>
>> herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:
>>
>>
>>> But two problems I cannot find the solution for:
>>> 1. Firefox and Thunderbird start as if it all was the first time. Sure
>>> all the xyz123-kind-of-name directories are there in ~/.mozilla and
>>> ~/.thunderbird, but KDE does not find where to find these when starting,
>>> so it must miss some pointer file?
>>
>> Check the path in:
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
>
> There had been made a new profile, I first tried to redirect FF to the old
> one, but despite deleting the lock file, it was a no-go, kept
> complaining "already running". I got more or less away by copying
> bookmark.html and alike. Less than optimal, but I can live without.
>
>> ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
> This file looks :
> General]
> StartWithLastProfile=1
>
> [Profile0]
> Name=default
> IsRelative=1
> Path=izash8xg.default
>

It's been some time since I used thunderbird, but try IsRelative=0

> and
> .thunderbird]$ ls -als
> total 40
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 herman herman 4096 2007-01-30 15:41 ./
> 24 drwxr-xr-x 142 herman herman 20480 2008-06-27 16:20 ../
> 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 herman herman 335 2007-01-30 15:41 appreg
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 herman herman 4096 2008-06-27 16:53 izash8xg.default/
> 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 herman herman 94 2007-01-30 15:41 profiles.ini
>
> I deleted the parentlock file, but no avail, TH comes up blank, i.e. with
> the "create account" wizard
> I also checked the config editor, and sure there is no reference found to
> whatever accout or server, and surely I recognize the directories and
> files in izash8xg.default, so why the hell??????
>
>>
>>> 2. (a bit less important, but still) I did not find to restore my
>>> settings for Konqueror,
>>
>> ~/.kde/share/apps/konq*
>> ~/.kde/share/config/konq*rc
>
> Did the trick, I didn't try before ad I wasn't sure understanding all the
> implications, tx a lot.
>>
>>> nor for my KDE most-recent-programs list.
>>
>> ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments
> that was usefull as well, but not what I meant, I was asking for the list
> of most-recent-used-programs, that you get on top of the KDE menu
>

Sorry, I misread. If you have it set in
kcontrol/Desktop/Panels/Menus/Quickstart Menu Items it will be re-built as
you use the system. Is that what you want? I don't know where the actual
program links are stored.

Jim

herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:

.....
> There had been made a new profile, I first tried to redirect FF to the old
> one, but despite deleting the lock file, it was a no-go, kept
> complaining "already running". I got more or less away by copying
> bookmark.html and alike. Less than optimal, but I can live without.
>
The "already running" is misleading, it often means "cannot run with these
settings" because something got b0rked in the old profile.
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James Kerr wrote:

> herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:
>
>> James Kerr wrote:
>>
>>> herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> But two problems I cannot find the solution for:
>>>> 1. Firefox and Thunderbird start as if it all was the first time. Sure
>>>> all the xyz123-kind-of-name directories are there in ~/.mozilla and
>>>> ~/.thunderbird, but KDE does not find where to find these when
>>>> starting, so it must miss some pointer file?
>>>
>>> Check the path in:
>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
>>
>> There had been made a new profile, I first tried to redirect FF to the
>> old one, but despite deleting the lock file, it was a no-go, kept
>> complaining "already running". I got more or less away by copying
>> bookmark.html and alike. Less than optimal, but I can live without.
>>
>>> ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
>> This file looks :
>> General]
>> StartWithLastProfile=1
>>
>> [Profile0]
>> Name=default
>> IsRelative=1
>> Path=izash8xg.default
>>
>
> It's been some time since I used thunderbird, but try IsRelative=0
>
>> and
>> .thunderbird]$ ls -als
>> total 40
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 herman herman 4096 2007-01-30 15:41 ./
>> 24 drwxr-xr-x 142 herman herman 20480 2008-06-27 16:20 ../
>> 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 herman herman 335 2007-01-30 15:41 appreg
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 herman herman 4096 2008-06-27 16:53 izash8xg.default/
>> 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 herman herman 94 2007-01-30 15:41 profiles.ini
>>
>> I deleted the parentlock file, but no avail, TH comes up blank, i.e. with
>> the "create account" wizard
>> I also checked the config editor, and sure there is no reference found to
>> whatever accout or server, and surely I recognize the directories and
>> files in izash8xg.default, so why the hell??????

Well I ended recreating my accounts, and then checked
~/.thunderbird/xxxx/Mail
and I found new directories created Local Folders-1 and mailxxx-1
The old folders Local Folders and mailxxx still existed and had the latest
files, so I copied all files over to the newly created directories and TB
was OK , all info present.
I found then that references to these directories were in prefs.js, but how
trashing KDE impacted this file, beats me.

Anyway, I'm back in a workable situation, I'll leave it at that, but I
learned a few things in the process.
Tx for your help.

Herman

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