Re: [Evolution] Newbie Q : Evolution Folders and restoring from backup

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Only your evolution data (in ~/evolution) and evolution config (in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution) need to be restored from backup (where "~/" is your home directory).

Evolution (the program) itself, should be installed from the corresponding linspire packages, or compile it yourself.  Although you could conceivably run it from files from the redhat system, it might be too much work (those files are a tiny subset of all files that are part of an evolution install).

If i'm undersnting what you're after anyway.

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 22:01 +1000, yvonne lee optushome com au wrote:
> Hope you can help.  (I'm sure you can... just
> whether or not I will understand the answer).
>
> I've recently changed from using Red Hat to
> Linspire (yep... you have a difficult task
> ahead of you).  I know enough about the
> command line to mv and cp and tar etc but not
> much more than that.
>
> Before I blew away my Red Hat partition I
> 'backed up' my Evolution folder (not sure
> what version it was either) (but had not read
> any instructions on doing so...)  and the
> results are now I have the following in my
> backed up Evolution folder:
> addressbook-sources.xml  cert8.db         
> key3.db  searches.xml   vfolders.xml
> cache                    config           
> local    secmod.db      views
> camel-cert.db            gtkrc-mail-fonts 
> meta     shortcuts.xml
>
> I am now trying to restore to Ximian
> Evolution 1.4.6 on Linspire.  When I do a
> "find" for Evolution I get the following
> (note it found the backed up files also):
> ./etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/evolution
> ./etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/evolution
> ./var/run/cnrclient/pool/main/e/evolution
> ./usr/bin/evolution
> ./usr/lib/menu/evolution
> ./usr/lib/evolution
> ./usr/share/doc/evolution
> ./usr/share/omf/evolution
> ./usr/share/evolution
> ./home/yvonneh/.gconf/apps/evolution
> ./home/yvonneh/.gconf/apps/gnome-settings/evolution
> ./home/yvonneh/evolution
> ./home/yvonneh/My Documents/yvonneh/evolution
>
> can I just copy or move the files over?  What
> is the best way?  Or is it irretreivable as I
> didn't back it up the "proper" way?  (as
> indicated on this mailing list?)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Yvonne
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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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