Re: [Evolution] Recovering Data Files after Reinstallation

[N B Day <nbday fastmail fm>]

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 13:16 -0700, jonah nucleussystems com wrote:
> Hello, world!
>
> I just upgraded to Ubuntu Natty 11.04.  The bummer is, I forgot that
> Evolution has a backup feature, and I didn't export a backup file.  But
> I did save a backup of my home folder.  To get my email, I tried copying
> ~/.config/evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution to their respective
> locations.  But when I start up Evolution, my email accounts are there
> (i.e. I can send/receive email), but none of my old emails are there.
>
> In a desperate attempt, I created a new temporary user and mounted the
> backup home folder to the home folder of the test user, and logged in. 
> Evolution wouldn't even acknowledge the files, it just gave me the
> start-up wizard.
>
> How can I get my mail back?

You don't say what you upgraded from ....

You probably have a .evolution directory in your home backup.  Delete
everything in your new .local/share/evolution, restore .evolution to
your new /home and then try it.  This *should* work; obviously it is
much better to make the backup and restore from that.

Evo now stores its data in .local/share like a well-behaved GNOME app,
not in .evolution as previously.   

Good luck!

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