Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.32 thinks it starts first

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 15:42 +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> I'm using Evolution 2.32 and after having some disk trouble it thinks
> it has never been run. But ist has, there are several mail accounts,
> comparing to the last backup nothing ist missing from
>
> ~/.config/evolution
> ~/.local/share/evolution
>
> There is no ~/.config/evolution/sources and it is not available from
> backup, too.

        Hi,
the 2.32 is very old, it had been released around the end of 2010, thus
I can be wrong here, but I think the account information is stored in
GConf, not in ~/.config/evolution/sources, as in the more recent
versions.

If you have a backup, then extract from it only
the backup-restore-gconf.xml file, then fix in it any paths, which can
be like:
   DATADIR   ... /home/user/.local/share/evolution
   CONFIGDIR ... /home/user/.config/evolution
and maybe some others. What you really need is the
/apps/evolution/mail/accounts from the GConf .xml file, because that
used to be the place with the account information for mails (calendars
and such were stored elsewhere, I think).

Once you fix the paths in the file (if any), you can load it with this
command:
   $ gconftool-2 --load backup-restore-gconf.xml

I've no guarantees it'll really work, as I said, it's 2010 material,
too long time ago for my poor memory, but it may help (I copied some of
the above from the backup/restore code).
        Bye,
        Milan