simply copy your .evolution directory and all of it's contents

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 07:14 +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know how to back up my current Evo so that I can install
> a new system and have everything "just work" ie signatures, email,
> contacts, folders.  Can I just delete the cache expecting it to be
> re-built? 
> I have installed Mandriva 2008 on another drive and copied ~/.evolution
> to a USB key with my ~/Documents  and ~/Pictures folders.  I copied the
> files into the new /home/andrew directory and then started Evolution.  I
> needed to enter all my email account details again and I am missing
> quite a bit of stuff. This was a dry run to see if I could get it right.
> 
> Any ideas how I screwed up, and what I may do differently, please?
> 
> Andrew Greig
> Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org 
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
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Todd Ness 

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