Re: [Evolution] importing Evolution TO Evolution

[Glen Roberts <goroberts yahoo com>]

I didn't have a VFAT partion abailable to me but
looking over what you did told me what was going on
the background. I deleted the ~/evolution directory
and re-copied the original (root) to my home directory
followed by using chown to modify the ownership:

chown -R myname *

Which works now except the summary settings which is
nothing to change.  Thanks for the dirction. 
Ultimately the Ximian folks ought to fill the holes by
providing a clean way for users to do this very common
task.

gor
--- Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net> wrote:
> 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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