527260 – KDE3 config and data not migrated to KDE4

Bug 527260 - KDE3 config and data not migrated to KDE4

Summary: KDE3 config and data not migrated to KDE4

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 412938

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Product:	openSUSE 11.1
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	KDE4 Workspace (show other bugs)
Version:	Final
Hardware:	Other openSUSE 11.1

Priority:	P2 - High Severity: Major (vote)
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Assignee:	Will Stephenson
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Reported:	2009-07-31 20:05 UTC by Christian Boltz
Modified:	2010-11-27 21:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Found By:	Beta-Customer
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Description Christian Boltz 2009-07-31 20:05:15 UTC

FYI: I'm using openSUSE 11.1 + KDE 4.3 RC1 (from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop via one-click-install), so this bugreport is basically against the Factory KDE version.

Even if bug 412938 says that there is a migration tool for KDE3 -> KDE4, it seems there isn't (or it didn't work for me).

What I did:
- install a new machine with openSUSE 11.1 + KDE 4.3
- copy over my home directory from the old machine (where I only used KDE3)
- login at the new machine to KDE 4.3

Result: Lots of configs and data (KMail settings, Akregator archive etc.) were lost.

Workaround: I could fix the problem with
    cp ~/.kde ~/.kde4
At least at the first look, the KMail and Konqueror config and the Akregator archive are working fine.

-> KDE4 should do this migration itsself automatically if it detects that 
   ~/.kde4 does not exist yet and ~/.kde exists.

Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2010-11-27 21:35:45 UTC

Basically this bug is the same as bug 412938, even I cp is probably not the "official" migration tool ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 412938 ***