Re: [Evolution] How to keep multiple Evolution desktops in sync

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> 1.you have to make symbolic link to ~/.evolution in UbuntuOne folder
> which is synchronised, and it will appear in your other PCs. Bad news is
> that currently synchronising of symbolic links is disabled, until they
> get rid of some problems.
>
> 2. Second option is to move ~/.evolution into UbuntuOne folder, and then
> make ln -s ~/UbuntuOne ~/.evolution in order to keep evolution working.
>
>       These are only my theoretical considerations, as i had no time to test
> this solution. Hope this will help somebody.

Be careful.  The information in .evolution can only be guaranteed to be
consistent if all Evo processes are shutdown (i.e. by doing "evolution
--force-shtudown").  Also, configuration information is kept in gconf,
so that won't be synchronised.

Yes, copying .evolution is one way to go, but it is not an "official"
thing, is unsupported, and is not a full solution.

The only real way to keep multiple copies of Evo in sync is to not store
anything locally - i.e. use IMAP, LDAP and CalDAV.  It used to be that
"road warriors" (horrible term :-( ) couldn't use on-line solutions, but
the ubiquity of things like 3G makes it much less of an issue these
days.

P.