Re: [Evolution] directories to save for update

[Joep Blom <jlblom neuroweave nl>]

Andre Klapper wrote:

> hi joep,
>
> Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Joep Blom:
>
> > I have a lot of problems, upgrading from FC4 to FC5. Therefore I like to 
> > do something drastic, i.e. reformatting the partitions it uses and 
> > installing FC5 from scratch.
>
> 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.
>
> 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, $HOME/.camel_certs.
> Then dump your Evolution settings stored in GConf by running
> "gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some-file.xml" where
> "some-file.xml" is the name of the file the information is written to.
>
> On the new partition, make sure you are not running GConf (by "ps ax |
> grep gconf" for example; you normally have to leave Gnome for that and
> then run "gconftool-2 --shutdown" on the shell).
> Then import those settings by running "gconftool-2 --load some-file.xml"
> and log in to Gnome again, also copy the three folders
> ($HOME/.evolution/, $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution,
> $HOME/.camel_certs).
>
> After that, you can start Evolution on the new partition. Should work,
> as there were no changes between 2.2/FC4 and 2.6/FC5.
>
> cheers,
> andre
>
>
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Andre,
Thanks!. That was exactly the information I was looking for.
Even gconftool-2 works on a text console as apparently gnome is running 
(pretty useless I think).
The buggy upgrade has also removed the whole evolution package! so I 
even cannot run evolution on a remote system and therefore my addresses 
and appointments are unreachable!
Well, I'll start to work (and waste a weekend).
Joep