Re: [Evolution] Problem viewing calendars on multiple machines (correction)

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:53 -0400, Michael A. Gilchrist wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks to all of you for your input.
> >
> > I still, however, am searching for a simple solution that does not require 
> > setting up an online service or the computers to be on the same LAN for two 
> > basic reasons.
> >
> > First, I want to be able to have access to my calendar even if I'm not online. 
> > Second, I also have a way of syncing file systems that works very well for me 
> > and that I'm very comfortable with so I'd rather rely on that than develop a 
> > new 'skill'.
> >
> > Is there any place where the environment variables evolution uses are listed 
> > or, alternatively, a way of setting variables via commandline arguments.  This 
> > would seem to be a very desirable and 'unix-y' ability.
>
> Evo gets most of its configuration info from Gconf, which stores it in a
> bunch of XML files under .gconf/apps/evolution/calendar. You could try
> synching these, but be warned that it is probably a bad idea to do this
> while Gconf or Evolution are running. I've adapted the following from
> 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

I foolishly answered the question you asked rather than the one you
meant. The actual calendar data is stored here (for local calendars):

~/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics

Again, I'd recommend synching when Evo is not running.

poc