Re: [Evolution] full-backup?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 21:23 -0600, Richard Zach wrote:
> > Of course there's no proof that any of this is related to trying to use
> > my old .evolution and .gconf/apps/evolution, but it sure seems like it.
>
> I've had similar problems moving evolution to a new machine.  the
> various files in .gconf do mention your UID and the machine name (e.g.,
> strings like 'uid="1093980720 16409 0 doris"). Maybe someone can tell us
> how we have to replace these, or otherwise fix evolution so it recreates
> the information in .gconf from the .evolution tree?

Thats because you didn't backup .gconf, or gconf's file format changed (its done that recently).  You will have to investigate a gconf backup dump/restore tool in that case.

The uid's are just unique strings.  After they're created they are never re-generated, so the hostname part is irrelevent.

But if you generate new accounts, any data pointing to the old ones wont work (its designed that way on purpose).