Re: [Evolution] Restoring Evolution Settings

[Peter Ellis <terra ix netcom com>]

Hmm.  Well, I tried to re-import the old ones, but that doesn't work,
since Evolution's import doesn't recognize the .db format.  In addition,
since the Contacts list has absolutely no groups associated with it,
there's no way to add a new group.  Evolution crashes when trying to
create a new group.

Seems to me like a bug :)  Is there a way to restore Evolution's contact
settings to the default settings?  Perhaps moving .evolution to a
different file name, then just restarting Evolution to recreate the
directory structure and move the mail stuff over?

- P

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:57 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> You forgot to backup the .gconf directory as well, this is where these
> settings are stored.
>
> There are some registry keys (/apps/evolution/mai;/signatures?) you
> can play with regarding signatures, or just create the right amount
> and copy over the other files onto the same names.
>
> I don't know about contacts, i've tried editing the gconf keys but had
> no luck whatsoever for that or calendars.
>
> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 21:41 -0700, Peter Ellis wrote: 
> > Hi, all:
> >
> > I've recently migrated over from SuSE Linux 9.1 and Evolution 1.5.92 to
> > Fedora Core 2 and Evolution 1.5.9.1 (simply because that's the easiest
> > version to install right now via Fedora).  I took the liberty of backing
> > up ~/.evolution before I made the switch, and then restored it to the
> > same location when I reinstalled.
> >
> > While my mail, filters, and calendars survived intact, my signatures and
> > contacts don't seem to have been read in properly.  The Contacts section
> > is completely empty, and the Signatures portion of the Options dialogs
> > aren't reading the signature files that are there.  I created a new
> > signature, and it got saved as signature-5 in the appropriate directory.
> > This seems to indicate to me that the directory is correct, it just
> > refuses to read the other existing files.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > - Peter
> >
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