Re: [Evolution] Getting old emails, contacts, etc. back after re-install

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 18:09 -0800, Tom Mort wrote: 
> My system became corrupted and I had to re-install linux, however, I
> had all my files backed up.
> I thought I simply had to put a copy of the .evolution folder and
> files in my home directory to get my old emails, etc. back.

Nope. [wonders where the just-backup-dot-evolution thing came from, it
seems common, but has never worked or been the documented way to
backup...]

Did you backup your gconf settings?

> I've done that but they don't show up when I open Evolution.  Is there
> something else I have to do?

If you recreate your accounts, stop evolution, including the background
services, and then restore your .evolution it *might* work.