Re: [Evolution] directories to save for update

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 09:23 -0400, Graham Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:50 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > hi joep,
> > 
> > Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Joep Blom:
> > > I have a lot of problems, upgrading from FC4 to FC5. Therefore I like to 
> > > do something drastic, i.e. reformatting the partitions it uses and 
> > > installing FC5 from scratch.
> > 
> > Evolution stores your data in $HOME/.evolution, your account settings in
> > $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution and your passwords in
> > $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution. SSL Certificates are stored in
> > $HOME/.camel_certs.
> > 
> > First of all, shut Evolution and its background processes (Evolution
> > Data Server, Evolution Alarm Notify) completly down by using "evolution
> > --force-shutdown".
> > Then copy the contents of $HOME/.evolution/,
> > $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution, $HOME/.camel_certs.
> > Then dump your Evolution settings stored in GConf by running
> > "gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some-file.xml" where
> > "some-file.xml" is the name of the file the information is written to.
> > 
> > On the new partition, make sure you are not running GConf (by "ps ax |
> > grep gconf" for example; you normally have to leave Gnome for that and
> > then run "gconftool-2 --shutdown" on the shell).
> > Then import those settings by running "gconftool-2 --load some-file.xml"
> > and log in to Gnome again, also copy the three folders
> > ($HOME/.evolution/, $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution,
> > $HOME/.camel_certs).
> > 
> > After that, you can start Evolution on the new partition. Should work,
> > as there were no changes between 2.2/FC4 and 2.6/FC5.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > andre
> 
> Does this work moving from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system? 

Yes. I just did this a couple of weeks ago from a Pentium IV to an
Athlon 64 with no problems. In fact I backed up my entire home directory
and restored it, but it amounts to the same thing.

poc