can I back up my widgets?

[arminius]

specifically "plasma-applet-countdown-timer"
I have about 20 of these on my desktop, each with a specific piece of information on them.
is there a specific place on the hard drive this info is placed which I can back up and restore later?

[alf]

is there a specific place on the hard drive this info is placed

yes, you'll find all these desktop settings in this file:
~.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

[arminius]

is there a specific place on the hard drive this info is placed

yes, you'll find all these desktop settings in this file:
~.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

well that didn´t work, not only were all my widgets still gone, I lost every single file and folder in my desktop, and on the taskbar.

[arminius]

hey wait, no, got my desktop to come back like normal, widgets are still gone though

[Ken-Bergen]

is there a specific place on the hard drive this info is placed

yes, you'll find all these desktop settings in this file:
~.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

well that didn´t work, not only were all my widgets still gone, I lost every single file and folder in my desktop, and on the taskbar.

You've got to hate typo's, the path should have been

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~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

I'm not sure if you can recover anything but you've learned a lesson.

EDIT: I see you only lost the widgets.

[arminius]

that´s what i backed up, nothing can be done?

[Ken-Bergen]

that´s what i backed up, nothing can be done?

What exactly did you do?
A re-install wiping /home?

[arminius]

yes, complete reinstall, but backed up all of /home

[doktor5000]

Where and how did you back it up, and did you already copy it back, and in that case, how exactly?