Re: [Evolution] Evo: backing up & restoring to new machine

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

For local email, the important locations are ~/evolution or ~/.evolution >= version 1.5.

If you do them, you will get all your local email back, regardless of any other settings.

Add
~/.gconf/apps/evolution

if you also want your settings (version 1.4 or later, otherwise just ~/evolution).

But you must shutdown gconf before restoring the files otherwise it may not pick them up properly.
(gconftool-2 --shutdown).  Also you should shut it, and evolution, down before taking the backup, for consistency.

That's it really - only those two directories are used unless you've setup specific external file sources (maildir, mh trees, etc).

There has been a fair bit of discussion about this stuff on the list before - check the archives.

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16 +0000, melissad speakeasy net wrote:
>     having experienced a major hard disk and power supply issue this weekend, I finally want to ask this list what I have been wanting to know definitively since Evo 1.1.x.  How can I move my mail, including folders and contacts to a CD, and then to another machine, or what do I need to do to copy to a CD or flash drive and restore after re-installing Linux on a different HDD.
>      
>     I have had zero success at this in the past.  Would appreciate a step-by-step from anyone who has had success.
>      
>     melissa

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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