Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.4.6 to Evo 2.2, SuSE to Ubuntu

["Kelly J. Morris" <kjmlists comcast net>]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:06, guenther wrote:

Guenther - As usual, you are right.
> Well, I can not believe, there is nothing besides Desktop and Documents
> in your $HOME, if you did use GNOME at all with that account. Even
> without using GNOME at all, there very likely are hidden dot files by
> default. And I highly doubt, that Ubuntu patched GConf to use a
> different directory...

I don't know why Nautilus is not showing the hidden directories and
files since, as I said, I clicked the "show hidden" option.
> There sure is no evolution (1.4.x style, not hidden) dir -- cause you
> never used this old version on the new account. FWIW, if that directory
> doesn't exist, you don't need to delete it. ;-)  But you need to copy
> that dir (as mentioned in the detailed discussion) to make Evolution
> migrate that data.

Right, this part I got, too.
> Nautilus just failed for me too, to display the hidden dot files --
> until I opened a new Nautilus window after changing the displaying
> option. Reloading the dirs contents did not change anything. This is a
> Nautilus bug...
>
> Nonetheless, they do exist: Open a terminal and use the command
> 'ls -a ~' to see for yourself. This will list all the hidden
> directories, no matter what Nautilus displays...
Yes, this shows everything that Nautilus didn't show.

> Hope this clears things up...

I'll report back on the results.

Many thanks again.  Kelly

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Kelly J. Morris <kjmlists comcast net>