Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.15, Fedora 22 and Gnome Online Accounts

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 10:16 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> Evolution, or perhaps GOA has managed to screw backup and recovery yet
> again. Do they ever think these things through?

You are using an Alpha release of a distro with a development release of
an application ... and you didn't expect pain??

> A full account restore from a system of a different host name resulted
> in doubled online accounts in $HOME/.config/evolution/sources.

What sort of restore?  A filesystem level restore or restoring from a
backup made in Evolution (on a different machine)?

> Like so:
>
> $ grep AccountId=account_1425514256_0 -r .
> ./1425514256 2013 0 orpheus source:AccountId=account_1425514256_0
> ./1426523640 2025 14 felis source:AccountId=account_1425514256_0
>
> Now really what kind of sense does that make?

Did you clear out all the info from the Evolution data stores or did you
just restore over the top of other info (and hence get two copies)?

> I haven't looked into it all the way. This might be GOA's fault. But
> anyway. Suuuuper annoying.

Since these are development releases of both OS and application, then
once you have worked out what's wrong the best thing is to file a bug
against the appropriate component.

P.