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Re: [trinity-users] KMail migration to another computer

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:51:32 +0200
Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Saturday 16 June 2018 09:41:14 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 16 June 2018 09:22:10 Glen Cunningham wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 June 2018 22:57:07 Stefan Krusche wrote:
> > > > Am Samstag 16 Juni 2018 schrieb Glen Cunningham:
> > > > > Thanks for the reply, Stefan,
> > > > >    None of the files that you suggest exit in this old
> > > > > installation. G.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Glen,
> > > >
> > > > sorry, of course you need to look for these files in your old
> > > > .kde3 directory as deloptes pointed out as well. That's:
> > > >
> > > > .kde3/share/config/kmailrc
> > > >
> > > > becomes:
> > > >
> > > > .trinity/share/config/kmailrc
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Stefan
> > >
> > >   Thanks, Stefan,
> > >     That looks promising.
> > > On this old computer , I have
> > > glen@acmena2:~/.kde3/share/config$ ls -l  kmail*
> > > -rw------- 1 glen glen    163 2016-02-14 10:32 kmail.eventsrc
> > > -rw------- 1 glen glen 123083 2018-06-16 23:07 kmailrc
> > > -rw------- 1 glen glen    201 2018-06-16 22:38 kmailsnippetrc
> > > glen@acmena2:~/.kde3/share/config$ ls -l  email*
> > > -rw------- 1 glen glen  156 2018-06-16 22:38 emaildefaults
> > > -rw------- 1 glen glen 2357 2018-02-19 15:15 emailidentities
> > > glen@acmena2:~/.kde3/share/config$
> > >
> > > It is too late tonight, but first thing tomorrow, I will try to copy
> > > those 5 files to the new computer.
> > > Ta,
> > > G
> >
> > I would print this but because kmail will not print to my laser, I
> > can't.
> 
> Fixed. Dunno what changed, not a clue. I just deleted the printer from 
> the cups menu, then re-added it using the same foomatic driver.  It now 
> works from kmail...  That faint scratching sound? Me, scratching head.
> 
> One of those thing that make you go "huh?". Like trying to put the deck 
> drive belt back on a 20 year old John Deere rider, without a threading 
> diagram.
> 
> Way too much exercise for an old fart, but somebody had to do it. Extra 
> tum's for the calcium, a big B12 pill and some quinine in the night to 
> stop the leg cramps a geriatric old diabetic is prone to. Walking slowly 
> & carefully this morning.

I just say "avahi". I have 2 printers of the same name, one I added manually and one .. well, it's sometimes there when the remote printer is available. Printing to both works most of the time, but one of the two has a remote queue, one has a local queue. Funny things happen with documents in the local queue.

Nik



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