Re: [Evolution] change default mail folder

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 07:49 -0500, Andre Delattre wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 14:46 -0500, Andre Delattre wrote:
> > I'd like to store my evolution data on a separate partition from the
> > default HOME/.evolution.  I've seen some posts online about moving
> the
> > data and creating a symlink, but I've failed to make that work.
>
> In what way? Explain what you did and what happened.
>
> poc
>
>
> I moved all of the data from /.evolution to a new folder on the other
> partition: /home/andre/media/Storage/evolution
> Then I attempted to create the symlink:
> ln -s /home/andre/media/Storage/evolution /.evolution

And what happened? You still haven't said. Did the 'ln' line fail? Did
Evo complain? Did Evo not notice the difference?

Note that /.evolution should be ~/.evolution. Could that be your
problem?

poc