Re: [Evolution] Scratch configuration questions to evolution 3.12.9 Part2

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Andre thanks for the very good note
> You can read and edit evolution's data by using evolution.
>
> Who can answer competently, complete and detailed these questions?

I thought it was a complete and competent answer - he told you where to
find out the file locations and how to read the files, as you asked. Wh
at was wrong with it?


> Now I need to know which files belong together.
> * .local / * .config and dconf and the name of the directory
> I WANT to make a backup from scratch

File -> Backup Evolution Data

> with this files/topics
> notes, signatures, calendar, birthday, e-mail
>
> where ist the file stored = system-address-book
> where ist the file stored = system-calendar

It's easy enough to find given that you have been told where to find
out the data locations

> I must compare the files in a shell Editor
> cause there are two partitions on a PC

Some of the files will not be text files - so I don't know how a "shell
Editor" will help.

> Therefore, the second partition is newly installed
> that everything is original.
>
> I learned how I can edit the HOME/.config/dconf. 
> With alt + f2 + dconf-Editor.
>
> Dconf-editor
> org \ gnome \ evolution 
> default-address-book    = system-address-book
> default-calendar        = system-calendar

The bottom line is that you should not be messing around with
Evolution's internal data files - especially, as seems the case, you
don't really know what you are doing.  You *will* break something.

P.