Re: Path (was: 20090723KP -- Copying KMail)
Werner Joss <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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Am Sunday 26 July 2009 08:02:04 schrieb Bruce MacArthur: > If I understand everything correctly, I can boot to Kubuntu Jaunty and, > in Konsole, change directories > to /suse102/home/bruce/.kde/share/apps/KMail/mail/.KMail-Import.directory. hello bruce, that is mostly correct, but I would recommend that you just cd to /suse102/home/bruce/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail (from here, everything you want is included and in the same directory structure as on the target device) > Here I can "tar -cvjf /home/bu4lu3si1/suseKMail.tar.bz2 > suse102/home/bruce/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.KMail-Import/directory" no, just do "tar -cvjf /home/bu4lu3si1/suseKMail.tar.bz2 ." - note the dot '.' as source indicator - this will create the tarball in your target directory (/home/bu4lu3si1), the tarball will contain everything from /suse102/home/bruce/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail - but _without_ absolute path (/suse102...) which is important! > Then I can change directories > to /home/bu4lu3si1/.kde/share/apps/KMail/mail and > tar -xvjf /home/bu4lu3si1/suseKMail.tar.bz2 mostly correct (note upper/lowercase: should be kmail instead of KMail ..) HTH werner