On Tuesday 25 September 2012 17:07:58 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2012 00:24:38 Slávek Banko wrote: > > On Monday 24 of September 2012 01:03:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I am restoring my KMail details from Lenny with KDE 3.5.10 to Squeeze > > > with TDE 3.5.13, patched with Slávek's patches. > > > > in the configuration files from KDE 3.5.10 may be used .kde/share > > and /usr/share. It is necessary to change these settings to > > .trinity/share and /opt/trinity/share. > > > > Note: The identities for KMail are in > > .trinity/share/config/emailidentities. > > Thanks, Slávek. I have followed this advice, and things are now better. > TDE will open properly, and so at last will KMail. But I have still not > got my folders and data. > > Last time I tried to run Trinity on Squeeze on my desktop, I gave up and > went back to Lenny and KDE 3.5.10 precisely because of this problem. I > can't afford to lose the whole bang shoot. Identities I can re-enter, > connection details I can re-enter. The folder structure and emails are > important to me. > > Sadly, retreat back to Lenny is no longer realistically an option. > > I have for now retreated back to my old computer. I am doing an online > course and being cut off from emails for days is not really an option. > > So any data I have managed to transfer across will have to be > retransferred. > > Have I got to the end of the line? > > Lisi Istr that the default location for the 'root' kmail folder has changed in TDE; in KDE it was ~/Mail but iirc it has been moved to somewhere in the ~/.trinity folder. I had to edit ~/.trinity/share/config/kmailrc to set it back to ~/Mail (as this was an NFS mount on my server and I didn't want to have to change it). Have a look in the kmailrc file - search for the string "[General]" and then check to see where 'folders[$e]' is pointing. LeeE