Re: [Ekiga-list] Hard crash, lost all account and contacts on reboot

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 20/03/11 23:01, David Woodfall wrote:
> I hard a lock up while watching a video. On reboot fsck cleared some
> orphaned inodes. On starting ekiga the config wizard started up, which
> I cancelled. I have lost all my accounts and contacts.
>
> I don't have a recent enough backup of my home to be of any use but it
> won't be too hard to put accounts and contacts back in.
>
> Question is, where does ekiga store this stuff anyway? I'm guessing
> it's gconf? What is a good way of backing up gconf so I could restore
> just ekiga settings if I needed to?

All the settings are in ~/.gconf/apps/ekiga .

You can backup this directory.  When you need to restore it, be sure to 
kill gconf and remove ~/.gconfd before restoring that directory.

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Eugen