Re: [Evolution] Backing up/transferring Evolution data

[Brandon Young <bkyoung ittc ku edu>]

I noticed some wierd behavior from evolution where it wasn't deleting my settings even though I was trashing my evolution directory.  I discovered in ~/.gnome that there is another set of evolution settings (evoluiton and Evolution).  Save those as well if you are trying to do a backup that remembers what mail you have downloaded, etc.



On 03 Aug 2001 09:48:01 -0700, Eric Lambart wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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