Re: [Evolution] Reinstalled my PC - missing contacts,calendar and tasks

["Rene C. Castberg" <Rene Castberg org>]

Excelent, 
I deleted the .evolution directory and copied it back in again together
with the gconf/apps/evolution directory.  This worked great and am now
replying to your e-mail with evolution.


Thanks

René Castberg

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 19:39 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > After puchasing a new harddrive, i decided it was a good opertunity to
> > reinstall my linux pc. After installing the drive and the OS i copied
> > over my .evolution directory, and i am missing contacts, calendar and
> > tasks. i still have access to my old disk, could anyone tell me how to
> > recover the data?
> 
> You will need to copy ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ as well, as this GConf
> tree holds all your account information as well as the IDs which
> identify your Contacts, Calendars and Tasks.
> 
> If you would have created that tree before Evolution runs for the first
> time on the new system, Evo would have magically started from where it
> left off...
> 
> 
> The problem now is, that you likely already altered your data (Mail in
> your case), if you are using POP3 -- so that your backup doesn't have
> the latest data available.
> 
> Before trying anything, I would backup ~/.evolution as well as the GConf
> tree mentioned above. Paranoia saves your day.
> 
> 
> Thinking out loud... As you copied the ~/.evolution dir (and likely re-
> created the Mail accounts), your Mail setup should be pretty much the
> same as it was. No other component changed your previous data, so it
> still should be as it was before.
> 
> Simply overwriting (see below) the GConf tree mentioned above should
> restore all your settings -- and therefore pointing to all your old data
> and even recreating your (similar?) Mail accounts...
> 
> Before messing with your GConf tree, be sure to entirely quit Evolution
> by 'evolution --force-shutdown' and killing the GConf daemon. Logging
> out of X, and killing the daemon as well as Evolution should be safest.
> You can recreate that GConf dir from a console.
> 
> 
> Well, if I just had some stupid thoughts, please feel free to correct
> me, everybody...
> 
> HTH
> 
> ...guenther
> 
>