kde4.5.2, kmail and very profligate use of drive space question

[Nils Kassube]

gene heskett wrote:
> On Monday, October 18, 2010 12:24:12 pm Nils Kassube did opine:
> > gene heskett wrote:
> > > I believe it is the ~/.kde tree that is surplus, I just renamed
> > > it to ".kde-test" & we'll see who complains.  If nobody does, it
> > > gets nuked.
> > 
> > ~/.kde is the current config directory. ~/.kde4 was used for some
> > time when both KDE3 and KDE4 were available from the repos, IIRC.
> > But no application will complain if the directory is missing. They
> > just start from scratch which may not be what you want. E.g. kmail
> > stores your mail somewhere in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/.
> 
> This may depend on the distro's.  In an hour, nothing of kde's has
> complained because the directory is missing.  Everything has
> duplicates in the .kde4 tree, and its these duplicates that seem to
> be the ones actively being used.  Bear in mind this isn't ubuntu,
> but pclos.

OK, I don't know pclos and as this is the Kubuntu-users list I was (by 
mistake) expecting we were talking about Kubuntu. :)

I think you could check the time stamps of the files in ~/.kde/* and 
~/.kde4/* if you aren't sure which one is used. The unused ones should 
be quite old.


Nils