Re: [Evolution] Evol2 Backup

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Probably had gconfd running when you backed up and restored the data.

Both gconfd and evolution shouldn't be running at the time.

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:47 +0930, Mike wrote:
>     I have been trying to backup Evolution 2 from a machine at work and bring it home to a machine here and dump the whole lot in. I am running Mandrake 10.1.
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>     I backed up /home/user/.evolution & /home/user/.gconf/apps/evloution in their entirety.
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>     This was then copied to the same locations in a new install of the same Mandrake 10.1 and Evolution was opened up. It wanted to go thru the first time wizard and I put in the details for one of the accounts, although I was hoping all this would have been preserved in the back up??
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>     After doing that it opened up fine and virtually everything worked, except it did not preserve the other mail account settings and a couple of the preferences in the various configurations were not kept either.
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>     None of this was a real drama as the main items like the mail, calender etc were intact. 
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>     It has however got me intrigued as to what I did wrong with the back up or the restore?????
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>     Any help will be appreciated.
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>     Mike