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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:56 -0600, John Schmidt wrote:
[snip]
> Don't want to beat this topic into the ground, but...I went back and
> tried this method suggested by Not Zed.  I killed gconf on both
> machines, killed evolution on both machines and rsync'd the evolution
> and .gconf trees over again.  It did not restore my environment back
> to what I expected.  
>
> I still ended up having to re-define my filters (filters didn't know
> where to move messages to) and also had to add columns to each
> folder's view configuration.  And auto-complete on addresses doesn't
> work any longer either.  

sounds like your $HOME changed between machines perhaps? If so, known
issue that's been resolved in 1.5 by not using full pathnames in the
config settings.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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