Re: [Evolution] Migration problems

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> 1) Mail hosts:
> The configuration included an IMAP server, which was remote for the
> SunOS system but was running on the Linux system.  I would have
> thought it would just work, since the system name was valid from
> either (I was reprompted for the password, but I gather that's
> expected).  I suspected their might be some security issues with the
> IMAP server, and changed the name to localhost.  This worked better.
>
> After clearing away the evolution directory and restarting, the IMAP
> folders were still there.  So apparently it's not kept under
> evolution/ (or at least isn't there under 1.4).  Where is that
> information?

Since Evolution 1.3.x most of the configuration is stored using GConf
instead of the old ~/evolution/config.xmldb file. See the directory
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ for your settings, or use gconf-editor.

AFAIK you simply can delete this directory, to start from scratch. Force
Evolution to completely shutdown by running
$ evolution --force-shutdown


> 2) Contacts:
> Some members of this list indicated that the address book was binary,
> and so might not travel.  To my surprise, my contacts were preserved
> after the first startup.  (Or does the "address book" refer to
> something other than the contacts folder?).

Yes, ~/evolution/local/Contacts/ is the default Address Book directory.


> After I moved the evolution directory, the contacts were empty except
> for Ximian.  That was not surprising.
>
> However, when I tried moving back my original evolution directory, the
> contacts remained empty.  Where did they go?

Again, close Evolution and run 'evolution --force-shutdown' before
copying / overriding the contacts.

...guenther


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