On Monday 06 February 2012 00:07:56 pierre.lag6633@... wrote:
> I forgot one (important) thing about the .kde to .trinity trick :
> for kmail not be lost with its configuration, you need to create a
> shortcut to ".trinity" folder with name ".kde" . 

Aha!  Now that I certainly didn't do!!  As I said, I'll keep loads of copies 
and then howl for help if I need to!!

> That works for any 
> trinity application that uses the reference to .kde folder in a
> configuration file that has been copied from a KDE3 environment.

Yes, I have seen references to this.  I had not transfered these references 
and applied them to my failure with KMail.  I clearly should have.  

I think that I was panicking at the time.  We are a multi-computer household, 
and I am sysadmin for the lot.  And almost all the computers decided to die 
within a very short time of each other, at a particularly awkward time.

> You must be careful not to mess this up with some new KDE 4
> configuration folder of course (anyway I presume you don't use kde
> 4 ;)).

I take elaborate precautions to avoid KDE4 as far as I possibly can.  I most 
certainly do not use it!!  But it is a pernicious beast.

Thanks again,
Lisi