Re: First uses of kmail on new user

On Friday, 3 February 2017 20:56:50 GMT Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi Ian.
> 
> Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2017, 09:48:18 CET schrieb ianseeks:
> > Created a new user and started kmail to set it up.
> > Its created the local folders as "/home/newuser/.local/share/
> > akonadi_maildir_resource_0/"  - how can i rename this safely to something
> > more descriptive like "local-folders" - can i just rename it in dolphin
> > and
> > just update the kmail config accordingly?
> 
> I have seen that as well. It seems to be the new default to use the name of
> the resource. But I also prefer the old move descriptive name.
> 
> If you rename it while the maildir resource is running, the maildir resource
> may get confused as it has inotify watches… but on the other hand, these
> are on *inodes* so they should survive the rename.
> 
> But I think you can do it offline as well, like in:
> 
> - stop kmail
> - akonadictl stop
> - make sure database process is gone
> - edit path in ~/.config/akonadi_maildir_resource_0rc
> - mv ~/.local/share/akonadi_maildir_resource_0 ~/.local/share/local-mail
> - start kmail
> 
> And in any case: Make a backup first :)
> 
> Thanks,
Thanks, i'll give that a try.  Maybe i will log a bug tomorrow. i've also seen 
this with kwallet giving akonadi-resource names instead of the more meaningful 
one.  seems a like a lot more debugging to be done with akonadi

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