Re: [Evolution] Losing Info

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

make sure the %gconf.xml files and directories are writable. sounds like
they aren't.

Jeff

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 05:38 +0930, Mike wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just upgraded from mandrake 10.1 with Evolution 2.0.3 to Mandrake 10.2
> with Evolution 2.0.4. This was a clean install with the data from
> Evolution being backed up with this script:
>
> cd /
> evolution --force-shutdown
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> tar
> -cjvf /home/mike/backup/evolutionbom.tar.bz2 /home/mike/.evolution /home/mike/.gconf/apps/evolution
>
> I then restored it using:
>
> cd /
> evolution --force-shutdown
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> rm -rf /home/mike/.evolution/* /home/mike/.gconf/apps/evolution/*
> tar xjvf /home/mike/backup/evolutionbom.tar.bz2
>
> The problem is that it will not hold the mail account settings or
> various parameters I have set up for compose preferences, etc.
>
> Every time I shutdown and restart, it wants to use the account setup
> wizard as it has lost all my accounts?? I thought that shutting down
> gconftool-2 while backing up or restoring solved this problem??
>
> Becoming a real hassle putting it all back in each time I start up!!!!
>
> Mike