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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?

arminius wrote: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

alf wrote:

arminius wrote: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.

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

arminius wrote:

alf wrote:

arminius wrote: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.

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

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

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

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

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