[maemo-users] Relocate n800 Claws Folder?

[From: Tilman Vogel]

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Actually one good thing about *nix apps is that they are very systematic
about that: Most apps store their per user data in configfiles

~/.appnamerc

or directories

~/.appname/

where ~ denotes the user's home directory. This is usually hardcoded. If
you want to move the directory somewhere else, you can move the file/dir
and then use symlinks.

mv ~/.appname /some/where/else/
ln -s /some/where/else/.appname ~/

So, when you moved your ~/.claws-mail/ directory last time, you probably
did something like that? To check that, do

ls -lda ~/.claws-mail

If it looks like

drwxr-xr-x  10 29999 users 4096 2007-10-31 00:43 .claws-mail/

then it's still an ordinary directory in your home dir, if it looks like

lrwxrwxrwx  9 root root 16 2007-08-30 17:17 .claws-mail ->
/some/where/.claws-mail

then it's a symlink already.

BTW, these "dotfiles" are usually hidden from the user by "ls". To see
them, use "ls -a".

Hope that helps?

There are tons of Linux primers out there, here is one of them:

http://www.slideshare.net/anandvaidya/linux-introduction-commands



Tilman


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