Re: [Evolution] Moving settings between computers

[Dan Stromberg <strombrg dcs nac uci edu>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 23:05 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > I have Evolution on my home computer with several (6+) accounts on it,
> > and lots of offline folders, as well as some filters.  I'd like to
> > transfer this information over to my work computer without having to
> > re-add all the accounts and filters and settings manually, but can't
> > seem to get it to work.  If I copy over my ~/.evolution directory and
> > my ~/.gconf/apps/evolution directory to my work computer and run
> > Evolution I still get the First-Run Assistant.
>
> You will need to stop Evolution backend tasks and the GConf daemon
> before copying your data. On *both* machines (syncing the data to disk
> on the source machine and not using old data on target machine):
>
> $ evolution --force-shutdown
> $ gconftools-2 --shutdown

This is a valuable tip... but... what are you supposed to do if you have
to copy 10,000's of users from one NFS server to another, and you don't
have access to all of the NFS clients, and no reliable way of getting in
touch with all of the users?

> > Anyone know how this can be done?  I'm using Evolution 2.0.2
>
> Yeah, sure... :)
>
> ...guenther

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