Hello Nik,

Thank you for your quick reply.  My 12 year old P4 dual core is dieing 
and I have a new AMD quad core sat here doing nothing but waiting for 
me to get round to using it.

On Friday 20 November 2015 13:51:38 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. November 2015 schrieb Baron:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I need to save and transfer all my Kmail, Knode settings and
> > passwords to a new machine running Jessie/TDE desktop.  However
> > the machine I need to transfer from is 32 bit and the new one is
> > 64 bit, I don't know if that makes a difference.
> >
> > Which files do I need to copy over ?  I've already done a backup
> > of "Home" though some files didn't copy at all but I think that
> > they were things like sockets.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Hi!
>
> 64 or 32 does not matter. Either move the whole ~/.trinity folder to
> the new machine, or be more selective.

I'm glad that moving from 32 to 64 bit isn't an issue.

> For kmail do a "find . -iname kmail\*", to get all the files an
> folders. You'll need at least: ~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail
> 	~/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc
> The Folder, where your mails are stored in:
> 	cat ~/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc|grep folders=

Thanks: found them.

> You might also need the tdewallet, if you stored the passwords
> there: ~/.trinity/share/apps/tdewallet
> 	~/.trinity/share/config/tdewalletrc
> 	~/.trinity/share/apps/tdewallet/kdewallet.kwl

I don't use Kdewallet !  I've had some previous experience with that 
and I don't like it.

> For knode .. I've never used it, so ....

I found that data using the same path as above.  Thanks:

> Please write down the passwords for your email accounts prior to
> moving, 'cause that was a source of surprises for me :-)
>
> Nik

Actually it was keeping hold of the passwords for the various accounts 
that was my main concern.  I did rather hope that it would just be a 
simple file transfer.

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Best Regards:
            Baron