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. -- Best Regards: Baron