Re: What are these folders in home?

From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:50:01 -0400

paragasu wrote:

AFAIK,
you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files.
the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you
can login
just fine.

One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all
the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a
bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise.

raju
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