Hi,
The drive containing my Home directory on my desktop filled up and despite some
vicious paring was still over 70% full. This severely limited what I could do
with VMs.
I purchased a shiny new SSD (1TB) and using Partition Magic I cloned the old
drive to another Spinning Rust Drive in a USB caddy. I'm pretty sure that
would have worked OK but unfortunately, I discovered that the drive in the USB
caddy had read errors.
I had no other spare drive to hand so tried various ways to copy the data to
the new drive. To cut a long story short, I eventually did a clean
installation of Kubuntu and copied the data from the old drive installed in
the caddy. I copied everything, including all the hidden files and directories
and the exercise seemed to work apart from one or two files that I wasn't
worried about (they were nothing relating to configuration).
When I rebooted, everything seemed OK until I tried to open my email client
(Kontact). This uses KWallet to store the account configurations and all the
passwords but I couldn't open it because it rejected my password.
I used KWallet for all my passwords for websites etc too so this is a bit
serious. Has anyone any ideas about how I can recover the data for KWallet
that contains my password? All I've found on the internet so far is that
deleting the .kwl file allows a new password to be entered, but apparently this
no longer works. (It didn't work for me.)
This laptop is still working, but the KWallet database on here only contains a
few passwords (fortunately most of the email related ones).
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