Re: [Evolution] Migration of existing evolution to new partition?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Make sure gconfd and evolution* aren't running when you do any file copying.  run gconftool-2 --shutdown to shut down gconf and exit evolution.

I presume you're using some version which only uses gconf to store the settings, so that should suffice.


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 00:11 +0000, Carlos Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
>
> A couple of days ago my KMail corrupted hundreds of my
> files and started acting really weird with missing
> toolbar buttons and the like.  KDE in general has been
> quirky as of late when trying to upgrade.  Short of
> all this is that I switched to Evolution and then to
> GNOME.  
>
> Evolution has improved by leaps and bounds since I
> last tried it a year or more ago.  No more crashes and
> the like.  VERY NICE!!  
>
> I am now trying to copy over the relevant files from
> my old home partition to a new home partition on an
> entirely different disk. I have gotten all my email
> copied over no problem but am having a big problem
> trying to copy over the files that may contain my mail
> account settings.  
>
> I have tried copying ~/carlos/.evolution and
> ~/gconf/apps/evolution completely and evolution
> (running under a different Linux and accessing things
> on a different partition on a different hard disk)
> absolutely refused to load my old mail account
> settings.  
>
> Where are these settings kept?  Such that I could copy
> over the files that have to do with them?  
>
> Any input on this would be most appreciated.  
>
> I have spent hours looking, and tinkering with
> evolution, and searching Google and DogPile and to
> date have found nothing laying out very clearly and
> very thoroughly where evolution keeps it's data and
> which files do what and where.  Is there no web page
> anywhere that would list all this? 
>
> Carlos 
>
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