Re: [HC Evolution] Re: libole2 -> gnomevfs backend?

[Jamie Zawinski <jwz jwz org>]

Fernando Madruga wrote:
> It's not just a question of backups: a single file prevents accidental
> deletion/corruption of one of the files making the whole thing be out of
> sync...

A single file also means that one byte of corruption can bring down the
whole house of cards instead of just part of it.

John Karcz wrote:
> If you are still worried about users having trouble moving a directory
> full of information from one computer to another, make it easy to do
> from
> Nautilus, so that it helps more people than just the Evolution users.
> (Moving entire directories is an extremely common task!)

Far more important than whether it's one file or N is whether it
contains fully-qualified pathnames.  I spent hours trying to figure out
why, when I copied my .gnome/ and .enlightenment/ directories from one
machine to another, nothing worked -- it turns out that the reason was
that on one machine my home directory was /home/jwz/ and on the other it
was /u/jwz/.  Just about every file had fully-qualified pathnames in
them, so nothing worked.

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