Re: [Evolution] Restoring Evolution Settings

[Peter Ellis <terra ix netcom com>]

I understand that.  I wasn't trying to restore settings, I was trying to
restore the contents of the address book so that I could have my
contacts back.  Kinda like importing a .ics file, which is what I did to
get that information into Evolution originally.

Either way, through some freak occurrence, Evolution seems to have
shaped up.  All is well.

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:07 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 22:08 -0700, Peter Ellis wrote: 
> > 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.
>
> Setting ARENT STORED IN THE DB FILE.
>
> They're stored in gconf.  Gconf import is a gconf issue.
>
> > 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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> all downhill from here"
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