Re: [Evolution] configuration lost in evolution 2.03

[jib <jib2 libertysurf fr>]

Le mardi 28 Décembre 2004 18:00, guenther a écrit :
> > I installed evolution 2.03 on a clean Mdk 10.1. 
> > But it won't keep my settings. Evetytime i reboot the computer, the 
settings 
> > are lost (emails accounts, mail, contacts, calendar) and i get the setup 
> > wizard.
> > My $HOME/evolution is ok but it's like evolution won't read it.
>
> The data is in ~/.evolution since 2.0.0 and your configuration is stored
> using GConf (~/.gconf/apps/evolution).
>
> Which Evolution version did you use before?
>
> If the settings don't survive a reboot, it sounds like some GConf issues
> maybe. Are your settings written to disk at all? Is GConf running and
> sane? Do you have the proper rights to write the GConf settings and do
> you own the (new) Evolution data dir?
>
> As you are running a "clean" Mandrake 10.1 system... What do you mean by
> clean exactly? How did you got your old ~/evolution dir to a *clean*
> $HOME? Is the new UID the same as you used before? Which files did you
> back up beside the (old) ~/evolution dir?

Thanks a lot for your answer. It pointed me to the right direction.
For some reason $HOME/.gconf/app had wrong permissions. Now everything works 
fine and i could import my 1.4.5 data following what you wrote in another 
thread.

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