Re: [Evolution] moving evolution (calendar) to a new user

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb nyu edu>]

At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:17:54 +0200 Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:

>         Hello Allan,
> try copy also your setup from
> ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
>
> and maybe a passwords from
> ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution
> (but if you don't use passwords, then that should be empty.)
>
> because of playing with files, be sure you've closed your gconf daemon:
> gconf-tool2 --shutdown
>
> It's always better to backup files before you overwrite them with your
> old setup, just to be sure you've chance to go back when something goes
> wrong.
>
>         Hope that helps,
>         Milan

Thanks very much.  This was what was needed.  I had moved
.gconf/apps/evolution, but did not shutdown gconf-tool2 (I did
remember to force-shutdown evolution).

After a later reboot, everything worked--but I didn't know why.
Thanks for explaining it.

allan



> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:49 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> > Something is screwed up with my user after upgrading gnome on gentoo
> > (basically no gnome app starts).
> >
> > While I am figuring it out, I created a new user and everything works.
> > So I copied over my gnucash directory and all is well for gnucash.
> >
> > I copied .evolution and the contacts and tasks work fine.  I don't use
> > evo for mail, but the calendar is important for me (and thanks for
> > developing such a good one).  I have several classes of appointments
> > (travel, financial, etc), but it seems only the misc show up.
> >
> > Where is the information stored about the various classes and the
> > colors for each of them?  It doesn't seem to be in ~/.evolution.
> >
> > thanks,
> > allan
> >
> >
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