Re: [Evolution] Return to Evolution defaults?

[larry <lar3ry sasktel net>]

On Sat, 2021-10-09 at 22:21 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-10-09 at 13:07 -0400, lar3ry sasktel net wrote:
> > Is there a way, short of uninstalling/reinstalling Evolution, to
> > return to the defaults?
> Reinstalling will specifically NOT do what you want. Reinstalling the
> program will not touch the user configurations.

Yeah, I figured that, though I thought a purge might get rid of
everything. No matter, because I am all good now.

> There's no specific "loose all my configuration" commands, but you
> could probably do what you need by deleting the Evolution config and
> data.
> You don't say which version of Evolution you have, but the data
> storage locations are in the app Help and on-line for the various
> versions.  Make sure evolution and all the associated programs are
> shutdown before you do this, including evolution-data-server and the
> various factory executables.
> An example of the sort of things you need to do is here:
> but I can not stress enough that the specific locations are dependent
> on the Evolution version.

Yes, that did the trick. I double-checked the locations, deleted them,
fired up Evolution, went through the setup, and restored my backups.
All good now.

Thanks!