Question: How to export to an external drive?

[calebnp]

My home folder partition doesn't have enough space to export from konsave and trying to type a file path for the export file name throws an error. Is there a way for me to export to another drive?

[Prayag2]

Currently there isn't but I'll add a way to do that soon.

[MichaelTunnell]

Out of curiosity, how much storage space does your home folder partition have in total vs available? (now and/or at the time of this issue creation)

[calebnp]

I’m not sure about the time of issue creation, but right now I have 1.6 GiB free out of 58.4 GiB.

[MichaelTunnell]

That is interesting. I am curious how large your exported .knsv file is because mine was less than 2 MBs. It makes me curious what all it is saving for you.

[calebnp]

I never ended up with a .knsv file.

First I run konsave -s filename
It completes but I don't know what file results.

Then, I run konsave -e filename
It creates a folder in the home folder with the filename. That folder contains every theme, icon, color scheme, etc. installed on the system. That gets up to 1 GiB before the drive runs out of space and konsave throws an error 'No space left on the device'

[Prayag2]

You might be having several icon packs installed. Icons can take up a lot of space. You can comment line 99 in /home/prayag/.config/konsave/conf.yaml to ignore them. If you want a specific icon pack to be exported, you can add an entry in the "export" section of the config file for that icon pack:

icon_pack_name:
    location: "$HOME/.local/share/icons/"
    entries:
        - <icon folder name>

[Prayag2]

I have exams so I can't really work on this at the moment but I'll fix this soon!

[Prayag2]

Fixed in #72 :)