Re: [Evolution] problems retrieving addressbooks



hi miguel,

Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2005, 15:43 +0200 schrieb Miguel Decleire:
I'm having trouble trying to retrieve address-books after migrating from
Fedora Core 3 (Evolution 2.0.2) to Debian Sarge (2.0.4).
For all of the rest of the data, a simple copy/paste of the items to the
new /.evolution directory was enough. For the addressbook, the main one
("system") was also immediately accessible too. But not the "sub"
addressbooks I had created (which are filed
in /.evolution/addressbook/local with a code number).

Evolution stores your data in $HOME/.evolution/, your account settings
in $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution and your passwords in
$HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution. SSL Certificates are stored in
$HOME/.camel_certs.

hmm... so did you also copy your gconf account settings?

okay, now how to transfer all Evolution data between computers/to a new
partition/to a new computer:

Make sure you haven't started Evolution on the new computer/new
partition yet. First of all, shut Evolution and its background processes
(Evolution Data Server, Evolution Alarm Notify) completly down by using 
        evolution --force-shutdown
Then copy the contents of $HOME/.evolution/,
$HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution, $HOME/.camel_certs.
Then dump your Evolution settings stored in GConf by running
"gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some-file.xml" where
"some-file.xml" is the name of the file the information is written to. 

On the new computer, make sure you are not running gconf (by "ps ax |
grep gconf" for example; you normally have to leave gnome for that and
then run "gconftool-2 --shutdown"). Then import those settings by
running "gconftool-2 --load some-file.xml" and log in to gnome again.


in general: backups can save your day. :-)

cheers,
andre

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