Re: [Evolution] Evolution doesn't start

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 02/24/2015 07:31 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Not saying that the official help is perfect either, but I generally
> fail to understand why people follow random pages on the interwebs
> instead of the official help (under 'Help > About' in the application
> and on https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/ 

Still nothing in the official help about how to restore Evolution from
an rsync / bup / rdiff-backup / duplicity mirror. Which is how 99% of
everyone actually backs up their system.

Actual example: Going from a crashed and dead older CentOS 5 system to a
brand new Fedora 21. Which magic directories and settings need to be
yanked out of the backup images? Without necessarily copying
*everything*, because the only things that you want right now are email,
not the email plus 200 GB of other junk.

With Thunderbird the answer is $HOME/.thunderbird.  Suuuper easy.

With Evolution getting the email back is fortunately pretty easy. But
you're better off writing down account settings and vfolder searches on
note paper.