On 02/21/2016 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 21 February 2016 15:39:57 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > >> On Sunday 21 February 2016 01.41:18 Glen Cunningham wrote: >>> Reply to my own post for the archives. >>> >>> On Sunday 21 February 2016 09:38:25 Glen Cunningham wrote: >>>> Thanks for the try, Nik, >>>> >>>> On Sunday 21 February 2016 03:39:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: >>>>> Hi! >>>>> >>>>> It's that simple :-) >>>> NO! It is not that simple. >> (...) >> >>> Laboriously copied the above 6 files/directories from .kde3 on the >>> old box to .trinity on the new one. >>> That did not work! Kmail failed to start. >>> Deleted the 5 config files, restarted kmail, at least kmail >>> started this time and my old mailboxes seem to have survived. >>> >>> There has gotta be a better way! >>> Cheers, >>> Glen >> It should - almost - work the way Nik indicated. >> >> There are possibly a few things to edit when you move to .trinity (but >> that will be only once). Mainly, did you edit >> /.trinity/share/config/kmailrc ? In the last part of the file (after >> the mailboxes), you have the path to your mail directory. >> >> In (very) old time this would have been ~/mail , but somwhere in KDE >> history it was relocated to a ./kde3 subdirectory, usually >> $HOME/.kde3/share/apps/kmail/mail. You must change that to >> $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail >> >> As far as I remember that's all I had to do (apart from copyinf the >> directory). >> >> Thierry > That might not be 100% good info, here on a wheezy system, its ~/Mail, > and I can't remember when it was different. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional >> commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read >> list messages on the web archive: >> http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to >> top-post: >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Cheers, Gene Heskett The Mail dir is a setting, it seems it was changed at some point and buried in the .trinity/xx/xx/xx ad nauseum. I use ~/Mail on some of my boxes. As to the OP question I would copy the .kdexx folder and rename it ,trinity . It seems like I did this years ago, or something as simple as that. One caveat that comes to mind is I always have the same users, and UID's on my network. greg m