Re: [Evolution] Backing up/transferring Evolution data

[Eric Lambart <lambart got net>]

No, I really don't believe that copying the ~/evolution directory tree
will backup the settings.  Because I was having problems with evo
re-downloading hundreds of messages, I deleted the entire ~/evolution
tree several times to wipe out the bad data and start over.  To my
surprise, it always remembered my mail account setup even though all the
mailboxes were gone and it told me it thought this was the first time
the program was run.

I still haven't figured out where the config settings are stored.  I
found something called ~/.gnome/evolution but there's very little info
there.  There is also a ~/.gnome_private/Evolution which stores your
(somewhat encrypted) mail passwords.

--Eric

On 03 Aug 2001 15:04:30 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On 03 Aug 2001 10:19:11 +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I make a backup of my /home/xxx/evolution directory and transfer it
> > to another machine will ALL the settings and configuration be
> > transferred?  More importantly, will Evolution on the new machine
> > remember what mail was retrieved last so that I don't have to redownload
> > all the mail from my mail server again?
> >
> > I just want to make sure that I can keep a series of backups of my data
> > and restore it, if necessary, from the exact same point without having
> > to set everything up again.
> That's what I've done myself sometimes, and I don't remember losing any configuration
> when using it in another machine. So, yes, it should work.
>
> cheers