Re: [Evolution] Restoring mails and settings from backup

[Francesco Porro <frapox gmail com>]

On lun, 2014-01-27 at 13:03 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

yes, but I made another attempt, after Milan's reply, following his
suggestion. I stopped gdm from another console (and so evolution and
dconf have stopped), then copied the folder of the previous list. This
didnt' work.

So I tried another method: copying the whole .local and .config trees,
and this time it worked! So I suppose there should be at least another
folder to copy.

I also tried the last procedure into a virtual machine running the same
environment, and the results are the same.