Do I need both ~/.kde/ and ~/.kde4/ - kaddressbook

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 2:58:55 pm Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:44 +0200, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 13:31, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I tried KDE4 while still under Hardy, and now that I'm in Intrepid, I
> > > wonder if there's a recommended way to merge ~/.kde/ and ~/.kde4/
> >
> > Not sure if merging would bring you that much, except maybe for kmail,
> > where it is recommended to use the "Import messages" tool which is
> > part of Kmail.
> >
> > If you have informations and files you need, you can copy those over
> > from the .kde4/share/apps/ folders individually, doing a general copy
> > is not recommended.
> >
> > I strongly suggest you avoid merging the .kde4/share/config/ part, as
> > it will only disturb your current settings.
>
> What about kaddressbook?? I have 1,534 records I'd rather not lose. Ric
>
> --
Kaddressbook has its config file in ~/.kde/share/config/kaddressbokrc
and the data in ~/.kde/share/config/kabc
You should be able to just copy these over while Kontact is closed
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