Re: [Evolution] Config files

[Faeren Madza <faeren gmail com>]

On 11/1/05, guenther <guenthe at rudersport dot de> wrote:
> > In trying to move to another machine, I copied the folders:
> >
> >      ~/.evolution
> >      ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
> >
> > the folders are there, but the accounts did not copy. What am I
> > missing? Are there configs elsewhere?

> These are the data and configuration necessary. However, you missed to
> shut down the backends that operate on that data and settings, before
> copying it.
>
> Stopping e-d-s (backend server for data files in ~/.evolution):
> $ evolution --force-shutdown
>
> Stopping the GConf daemon:
> $ gconftool-2 --shutdown
>
> You need to stop both backends mentioned above *before* you are copying
> the files manually to the target account. They will restart
> automatically, if needed. Just start Evo, this will do.
>
> It would be safe to care about both the daemons before copying the data
> from the old account (in case of unsaved data), but this isn't an issue
> in most cases anyway...


Thanks so much. I did 'killev' and also manually killed the e-d-s
processes I found, but I forgot gconf had its own daemon.

Thanks again.


Faeren.