Re: [Evolution] Manual migration of evolution to new machine

[dfc <chernoff astro cornell edu>]

On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 08:08 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 14:00 -0400, chernoff astro cornell edu wrote:
> >  
> > My plan, based on the help page
> >  
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en
> >  
> > is to copy .local/share/evolution, .config/evolution, 
> > .config/evolution/sources
> > and .config/dconf from the week old image to the new Fedora
> > installation 
> > (removing whatever might be there) and then add in the files
> > modified in the last 
> > week.
>  
>        Hi,
> skip the ~/.config/dconf, it contains your settings with respect of 

Thanks! It all seems to have worked without hitch-David

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Here were the steps --perhaps they will be of use to someone else:

With normal login:

0. Stored month old backup, copy of week old user directory, and
most recent altered files outside the default login directory

1. Restored evo from the backup via the gui

2. Created an alternate user login account (a
sledgehammer approach to avoiding the possibility of 
interfering gnome processes)

3. Logged out

With alternate login:

4. Open terminal

5. su -i to original user account

6. cd to week old, stored version of .local/share/evolution

7. rsync -avz  . ~/.local/share/evolution/

8. cd to week old, stored version of .config/evolution

9. rsync -avz . ~/.config/evolution/

10. repeat rsync for files most recently changed/added

10. gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.evolution

11. dconf reset -f /org/gnome/evolution/

12. Exit from su and then log out

With normal login:

13. startup evo