Re: [Evolution] moving ot another machine

[Philippe Rousselot <usergroup alcatorda com>]

Bingo!  it works, thanks

Philippe

Le mar 17/06/2003 Ã 16:00, guenther a Ãcrit :
> > I am using Red Hat 9 and evolution coming with the distribution
> > (V.1.2.2).
> >
> > I would like to move evolution to another machine that has the same
> > versions of RH and evolution. 
> >
> > I moved the evolution folder that is in my home folder but it seems that
> > something is missing as I lost everything. 
>
> Be sure to close Evolution 1.2.x and run 'killev' *before* copying the
> entire ~/evolution directory.
>
> As there are sensible data contained, be sure to adjust the user and
> group if necessary -- else Evo won't be able to access some of its
> files.
>
> # chown -R USER.GROUP ~/evolution
>
> where USER and GROUP are the user and group on the new machine. If in
> doubt, issue 'id' command and see uid= and gid= (without the brackets).
>
> Also, please make shure, you did not loose file permissions while
> copying (do not use CD or FAT file system), a tarball comes in handy.
> scp probably is the easiest way, if you have network access.
>
> ...guenther