---- Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Firefox bookmarks are kept in > ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/bookmarks.html, where profile is a random > string, something like this: nt4m68tk.default. I'm not a KDE user, > but I believe the address book is stored in > ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf. Thanks for refreshing my memroy on the std.vcf file and the location and verifying that I had the correct bookmarks.html file. > > I would backup all of ~/.kde and ~/.mozilla at least, and all of ~/ > unless it was simply too large to fit onto you backup drive. > > > I can't get my KMail files (the e-mail that I saved in folders) to > > move by scp the file names have a lot of puncuation marks in them > > and the SSH does not like it. Will these files still work in Kmail > > if I can zip them, move them, and unzip again? > > They should. I'd use tar instead of zip. Zip won't include any file > permissions or ownership info. > > > Or, does some one know a clean simple way to get these files copied > > over to my other box with the SSH/SCP command in the shell? > > Use -r to scp to recursively copy the directories. > > $ scp -r ~/.kde/share/apps/mail backuphost:/path/to/save/files scp -r was all I needed I tried to use the -r when i was just learning the basics of Linux and could not figure out how to get it to work so i forgot about it. Thanks for sharing! transfering very now. > You should be able to use scp to transfer files which contain special > characters, you just need to quote them. > > $ scp -r 'Don\'tcha hate files with Punctuation!' backuphost:/tmp
