Re: [Evolution] Restoring mails and settings from backup

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 18:46 +0100, Francesco Porro wrote:
> So I decided to copy the whole .config/ and the whole .local/ trees from
> the backup, and in this way it worked! All mails and settings back where
> the was.
> Could this mean there is something else needed to restore your Evolution
> like it was before?

You cannot replace files that are open.  Especially in the case of DConf
which mmaps (memory maps) its files, replacing such files while 'live'
will certainly not work.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA