Re: [Evolution] Where does evolution store its files?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Until just now, I didn't know that it was a tar archive.
> I was going by this:
> http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/backup-restore.html.en
> If it's just one tar file,
> I can change permissions on the tar file.
> A user program really can't do much with the owner informaton in a tar file.

Quite.  When the tar file is unpacked the ownership of the files will be
set to the user who unpacked it - no other course of action is possible
since only the root user can set the ownership of a file to something
else (and I really hope you aren't running a mail client as root!)

P.