Re: [Evolution] Moving Evo from one HDD to another

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:48 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:46 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 23:58 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: 
> > > I have tried to get my .evolution file to the new drive
> >
> > The only thing that I've ever found that's reliable is to Log Out of
> > GNOME, and then from a console vt run rsync to push my entire home
> > directory from one box to the other. Anything short of that missed
> > settings and worse would corrupt your address book because
> > evolution-data-server hadn't safely close down.
> >
> > I actually use this quite successfully presently to pass my environment
> > between desktop and laptop. Of course, there's the restriction that I
> > only use one at a time, but hey. If I'm moving to my laptop it's cause
> > I'm going out/abroad/whatever, so it doesn't matter.
> >
> > Script with the rsync command line attached in case anyone is
> > interested.
> >
> > AfC
> > Sydney
>
> As closing evolution doesn't close all the background processes that it
> starts, I have had to start running "pkill evolution" every time.  What
> a pain.
>
> Use pkill or kill to ensure that evolution is stopped.

I second that. Even "evolution --force-shutdown" can leave processes
lying around.

poc