[ale] permissions mystery

[Jim Philips]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 09:38 pm, Michael Trausch wrote:
> Jim Philips wrote:
> > I reinstalled KDE tonight. Now, since I reinstalled Kmail fails at
> > startup, claiming it doesn't have permissions to create $HOME/Mail.
> > That directory already exists and it has the same permissions that
> > worked earlier today. The only thing I can think is that it is
> > actually trying to create the directory somewhere else. But I can't
> > think of a way to check this. Any hints?
>
> The first thing I would try is renaming the Mail directory to
> something else - and see if it will create a new Mail directory.
> Perhaps, for some reason, it's being brain-dead and refusing to work
> with the old Mail directory that you have.

Tried that. Still wouldn't work


> If renaming it works, then after you've finished starting it up the
> first time (and before downloading any new messages) copy the
> contents of the old Mail directory over.

I finally solved it by renaming my .kde directory, where all KDE configs are 
located. One of the config files was pointing Kmail to the wrong directory. 
In the resulting confusion, I clobbered all of my config settings for KDE. 
Lots of fun!