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

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:45 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > 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!)

This isn't true;  tar can request to not set the ownership, it can just
extract the files and leave permissions and ownership alone.

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