Re: [Evolution] Restoring mails and settings from backup

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:35 +0100, Francesco Porro wrote:
> When I start Evolution, it shows me the wizard to set up all things from
> scratch instead of showing my archive (with previuous settings, of
> course). So, what's wrong? Should I copy some other folders from the
> backup to the new home?
>
> I'm running Evolution 3.8.4 on Ubuntu Gnome edition 13.10

        Hi,
it depends how you copied the files. Supposing you are touching internal
application data, you may see such trouble. I expect DConf has it the
same as Evolution, if you really want to change internal files, make
sure the application is not running. In case of evolution, it's any
evolution* process (ps ax | grep evolution). For accounts it's
evolution-source-registry. I would logout from your GUI/Desktop session,
switch to a text terminal, make sure no evolution (nor dconf) processes
are running, and only then copy the internal files. Then logout the text
console and try to login the GUI/Desktop. It's still on your own risk,
of course.
        Bye,
        Milan