Still 100% CPU when using Kontact - nearly SOLVED!

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/10/13 19:52, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> On 13/10/13 05:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 13/10/13 04:25, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:33:57 PM A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>>>> On 12/10/13 04:16, Bruce Marshall wrote: I guess my idea is that it 
>>>> would be darn near impossible to separate all that
>>> out!   Now that KDE is built on  akonadi/nepokuk/SQL.virtuoso etc etc I
>>> consider it to all be a mess...   "Resources"  yuk!   Abd as it is. 
>>> a lot of
>>> things still fail to work under that organization and I view it as a 
>>> house of
>>> cards ready to fall.
>>>
>>> For example, you are supposed to be able to switch off incoming 
>>> emails when
>>> Kmail isn't running.  A nice thing in my view.  But it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Now if all the apps could decide on a sensible method of separating
>>> configuration from data, that would be a real blessing.
>>>
>>> But that's what we have to deal with.
>>
>> You mean that it is not possible in Kubuntu to create symlinks - for 
>> kmail, whatever - to where you have your directories/data stored?
>>
>> For example, I have had my irreplaceable data (like Thunderbird mail 
>> directories and Firefox config files) sitting on a second HDD in a 
>> directory called Special and my Documents, .thunderbird, .mozilla, 
>> Downloads, etc etc are all symlinked to Special.
>>
>> When I install a new version I don't have to worry about losing these 
>> directories/data because they are never overwritten by the new 
>> installation. All I do is create the symlinks in the newly created HOME.
>>
>> Simple. Been doing it for years (and it has been mentioned here and 
>> in Ubuntu list).
>>
>> BC
>>
>
> I actually like this solution. I am certainly going to try it out. A 
> drawback is, that for any new application that is important to me 
> (i.e. not a game or experiment) I will have to find out actively where 
> the application stores the data I find important and redirect it to a 
> fixed location. In the past I have also noticed that differing 
> distribution tend to have different places to store mails (thunderbird 
> is an example of this).

Thunderbird stores your mail in only one place - ever! And that is in 
your home directory in the directory ./thunderbird. That's it. And if 
you are running Windows Thunderibird will always store your mail under 
Users/<yourname>/....../.thunderbird (and Firefox stores it in the same, 
or rather similar place, ....../mozilla). So if you ARE running Windows 
and then decide to use Linux all you need to do is to copy over to your 
/home directory the thunderbird and mozilla directories in Windows.

Re the rest of your comments, someone else will correct me on this but 
as far as I know your data is stored in your /home directory and no 
where else. Reason for this is that Linux is a multiuser system and each 
user has his/her own /home directory and that is where his/her data is 
stored.

> But I will try this approach as it seems easiest to apply.
>
> Still, I feel that linux users and developers alike are insufficiently 
> aware of this being a problem.

This is not a problem. All it requires is the exercise of "the little 
grey cells".

And the developers are not stupid - well, not all of them anyway :-) .

> I wonder if there is a way to make sure this gets attention, what 
> platform we have to file such a desire / complaint / bug / feature.
>
> Guus.

BC

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