Re: [Evolution] Re-initializing all evolution system files

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:01 -0400, Josà Alburquerque wrote:
> Hello everyone.  I've recently been having a bit of trouble using
> evolution and am hoping someone here can help me solve my woes.  I
> migrated from Thunderbird by importing mbox folders originally on a
> Debian system.  I switched to Ubuntu 9.04 and found that things worked
> fine.
>
> I then upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and now, after composing a new mail, when
> I send it, evolution crashes and disappears after successfully sending
> the mail.  What's strange is that I tested evolution in another user
> account that I created, using my same POP/SMTP info and there was no
> problem sending mails there.
>
> What I'm hoping is that maybe I can remove all evolution files in my
> user account (backing up my mail) and then running evolution and letting
> it re-create all files and maybe the problem will go away.  I think I'm
> getting errors because of an upgrade I ran with evolution still running
> back when I was running Debian which moved things to sqlite and all my
> errors began from there.  Would someone here tell me how I can
> re-initialize all evolution files and then import stuff, if necessary,
> to make sure that any sqlite problems are completely gone?
>
> I'd really appreciate any help.  Thanks.

Take a look at:
http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_transfer_all_my_Evolution_data_from_an_old_home_directory_to_a_new_home_directory.3F

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