How to fix a broken account?

[Thomas Sperre]

Laurdag 16 desember 2006 01:19 skreiv D. Michael McIntyre:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 5:48 pm, Thomas Sperre wrote:
> > I also created another user, and voila, problems are not there. I think
> > what I have to do is somehow restore the troubled account using default
> > values or values from the new user account that did not have any trouble.
> >
> > However, how do I do that?
>
> Since it sounds like this is probably all related to your KDE config,
> probably the thing to do here would be to set your current ~/.kde off to
> the side, take a copy of the generic one from the new user, then manually
> copy in the config files from your saved directory that would cost you the
> most time to reconfigure from scratch (eg. kmailrc).
>
> Are these suggestions too generic?
>

Yes, and no. I am pretty konfident that it will work, but it will also be 
quite time consuming to figure out which files in .kde is safe to keep and 
which should be removed. However, if manual is the only way, then...

Is it an alternative to backup ~./kde and then progressively delete files in 
the installed folder, assuming that kde will replace the missing ones with 
default values? It looks to me like there is a system to get values from a 
default location if there is nothing particular in the user accounts  
~/.kde/share/config?

Another question, where is the more valuable files located, typically? I can 
see that kmailrc is one I would like to keep, but I guess stuff like my 
konqueror bookmarks, contact list from kopete, etc is also donw there 
somewhere?