I just rm'd a chunk of ~ and can't find settings [SOLVED]

wjb · Last edited by wjb on Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:35 am; edited 1 time in total

A couple of days ago, I wrote some stuff that accidentally created a file /home/me/~/.scan - deleted it using rm but without engaging brain soon enough and lost a chunk of home directory. I've got a relatively recent backup so got my own files back ok, but I've lost settings for other stuff - kde 3.5.7 (appearance), kmail (address book and accounts), korganiser (all my stuff), juk (playlists).

None of this stuff has really changed in the 2 weeks since the last backup so I must have it somewhere. All the things acted like it was the first time they'd run so I thought it would be easy(tm) to find the changed local config files. No luck so far, can anyone please point me at where the above store their settings?

frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

should all reside in your ~/.kde directory (maybe ~/.kde-version)

wjb · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:35 am Post subject:

Thanks

One of the first things I tried was copying over the .kde* directories/files and it didn't help at the time, but I now think its because the .kde I copied as directory not a link to .kde3.5

I ended up moving the mangled home directory to a safe place and restoring it from the backup - that got all my config settings back. Since then I've been moving the surviving stuff back in from the broken copy - I've lost a few files I changed in the last couple of weeks but nothing major.