Re: [Evolution] importing Evolution TO Evolution

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:29, Glen Roberts wrote:
> Most folks use the root account rather than creating
> their own at one time or another when building a Linux
> box.  This causes problems when using apps like Gnome,
> screensavers and Evolution.  So, here I am trying to
> bring my Evolutions 1.4 settings over to my personal
> account and they're not working hence having to resort
> to using Yahoo for email.  
>
> Using su I've copied the evolution directory over but
> it still does not use them.  What gives? How can one
> use existing Evolution settings even when the program
> won't import it's OWN files?

Here's a way I ended up working around this:

After setting up my system and using it for a few days as "root", I
copied the /root/evolution folder to a VFAT drive, logged out/in as the
user I wanted (me, I reckon), got all my settings/desktops/wm's the way
I wanted, then ran Evo again...without really setting up any REAL
accounts, then killed Evo (killev) and deleted the existing
~/home/mynamegoeshere/evolution diretory and copied the old one off the
VFAT partition where I wanted it, and ran Evo again...voila! all my
account info was there, all my email was there...

A bit roundabout, but it worked...

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