[Wylug-help] redo/reset KDE - is this even possible

[chris mackins]

Hi Alex

Thanks for the reply.

To briefly paint the picture, a couple weeks ago, I did a media update using
Mandrake (10.1) through the GUI.  The result from that was that I lost a
number of apps (Thunderbird/Firefox and also StarOffice7); my email seetings
were lost as were all my browser bookmarks in Konqueror.  Worse, all my own
work which I'd saved was also completely lost. Using a console, my shell
script had changed from [chris at localhost]$ to this bash-2.05b$

I tried a number of ways to try an recover but unfortunately nothing worked.

Then yesterday I read that if you 'redo' KDE settings, this might recover lost
files etc.  I'm not sure about the definition of 'redo'!! hence my post
today.


I can't see that creating a new user account would work here - as the
apps/work were specific to my user account.  Though somehow, someway, it does
seem that the users' config is definately borked.

Cheers.

Chris.



On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 11:44 am, you wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Lost in what way?
>
> Try creating a new user account, logging in, and seeing if it works from
> there
>
>
> Otherwise, It's impossible to tell whether you've deleted stuff or just
> messed up a users' config
>
> Alex
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:39:16AM +0000, chris mackins wrote:
> > I've read  that it might be possible to 'redo' the KDE settings - in
> > order to restore lost icons/folders etc.
> >
> > Other than uninstalling and reinstalling KDE is this even possible?  I've
> > looked at configuration>KDE menu options and cannot see anything even
> > remotely relevant.  Nothing else seems to spring to mind
> >
> > Using Mandrake 10.1 and KDE 3.2
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> >
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