Now running Spring, using Kde 3.5.9.

Kept my original /home partition, but renamed .kde to allow fresh
installation, then imported bookmarks, address book, etc. I decided I
wanted to reduce the history of URLs displayed in the Location bar, so
used Configure to reduce the time and number kept. Then I noticed that
when I entered the first character of URL it dropped down to show a
history of URLs that were definitely older than I had set it for. Then
tried right-click in the Location bar and selected Clear History. Looked
good - until the next time I launched Konqueror, when all those old URLs
had reappeared! So I used Find to search for files containing the text of
some of those URLs, but the only ones that came up were bookmarks.

Ive gone round this loop several times, and tried deleting various Konq
history files, all to no avail. If those URLs aren't in the history,
where are they being stored?

Chris

Quoth chris :

> Now running Spring, using Kde 3.5.9.
>
> Kept my original /home partition, but renamed .kde to allow fresh
> installation, then imported bookmarks, address book, etc. I decided I
> wanted to reduce the history of URLs displayed in the Location bar, so
> used Configure to reduce the time and number kept. Then I noticed that
> when I entered the first character of URL it dropped down to show a
> history of URLs that were definitely older than I had set it for. Then
> tried right-click in the Location bar and selected Clear History. Looked
> good - until the next time I launched Konqueror, when all those old URLs
> had reappeared! So I used Find to search for files containing the text of
> some of those URLs, but the only ones that came up were bookmarks.
>
> Ive gone round this loop several times, and tried deleting various Konq
> history files, all to no avail. If those URLs aren't in the history,
> where are they being stored?

http://www.konqueror.org/faq/#Whered...dhowdoIeraseit

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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:48:13 -0400, chris <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Ive gone round this loop several times, and tried deleting various Konq
> history files, all to no avail. If those URLs aren't in the history,
> where are they being stored?

Check /var/tmp. You can safely delete the files there, and then restart kde.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:40:33 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:48:13 -0400, chris <invalid@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> Ive gone round this loop several times, and tried deleting various Konq
>> history files, all to no avail. If those URLs aren't in the history,
>> where are they being stored?
>
> Check /var/tmp. You can safely delete the files there, and then restart
> kde.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

No change, I'm sorry to say! I'm in the strange situation whereby nothing
from my previous session appears in the drop-down history (as I would
expect by setting "Maximum no. of URLs = 0") yet I still see URLs that I
last used weeks ago!

Chris

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:36:34 -0400, chris <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> No change, I'm sorry to say! I'm in the strange situation whereby nothing
> from my previous session appears in the drop-down history (as I would
> expect by setting "Maximum no. of URLs = 0") yet I still see URLs that I
> last used weeks ago!

Exit kde, delete everything under ~/tmp/, and then start kde.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:54:11 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:36:34 -0400, chris <invalid@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> No change, I'm sorry to say! I'm in the strange situation whereby
>> nothing from my previous session appears in the drop-down history (as I
>> would expect by setting "Maximum no. of URLs = 0") yet I still see URLs
>> that I last used weeks ago!
>
> Exit kde, delete everything under ~/tmp/, and then start kde.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

OK, back again. I tried your suggestions, including deleting the contents
of /var/tmp. Neither changed anything, so at my bext startup I thought
I'd try deleting /var/tmp before I even started Kde. Unfortunately (!) I
must have made a slight mistake :-) and deleted the whole of /var!! (I
know, I know!) So re-installed, keeping /home, but renaming ~/.kde before
doing so. This seemed to cure the problem. However, later it seemed to
return. Not sure whether I'd imagined the 'cure', I retraced my steps,
and began wondering if the problem had reappeared after I'd imported my
old bookmarks. Sure enough, re-naming bookmarks has made the problem
disappear. I can't explain this , but I'm sure someone else can.

Chris

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:44:36 -0400, chris <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> and began wondering if the problem had reappeared after I'd imported my
> old bookmarks. Sure enough, re-naming bookmarks has made the problem
> disappear. I can't explain this , but I'm sure someone else can.

Ok, so the history is showing entered urls, and bookmarked urls. I've
looked through the options in kcontrol, and in konqueror/settings, but
don't see any options to control what is shown in the history. At least
you've figured out where the info was coming from.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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