How to move kmail and kdewallet data to kde4?

turtles · Veteran Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 1670

I have allot of settings in kdewallet and kmail.
How can I automagicly migrate them?
Will

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

turtles · Veteran Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 1670

Well I just upgraded to KDE4 copying everything over and all my data works.
Kmail and Konqueror work flawlessly.
have not had any bad results so far.
I have added this to a wiki page I started on installing a minimal painless KDE4
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Kde4_minimal#Installation.
Thanks for your input.
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iandoug · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

I also had these issues... and wasn't wild about doing, as suggested in assorted places, just copying everything in .kde to .kde4.

The good news is that I was able to save most things by copying.

If I remember correctly, you need to copy these files from your .kde35 directory to the matching directory under .kde4;

share/apps/kabc/distlists and highest-numbered std.vcf file ... that takes care of your address book.
If you have anything in the other folders under there, I guess they should be copied too.

everything in apps/kmail

share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl

share/config/emaildefaults
share/config/emailidentities
share/config/kaddressbookrc (??)
share/config/kmailrc
share/config/kmailsnippetrc

I *think* that was it .... the only settings I lost were the SMTP server settings... could not find where they were stored in 3.5.

I freaked when I started KMail for the first time, was not expecting that layout ... but was able to set it back to a plain list via the buttons on the right.

If anyone has corrections to the above list, please post... :-)

(BTW surely this sort of migration should be done more-or-less automagically? Or at least have a tool in Kmail to do it?)

cheers, Ian
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