Re: What are these folders in home?



On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
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.

Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients.

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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