On lun, 2014-01-27 at 13:03 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 18:46 +0100, Francesco Porro wrote: > > So I decided to copy the whole .config/ and the whole .local/ trees from > > the backup, and in this way it worked! All mails and settings back where > > the was. > > Could this mean there is something else needed to restore your Evolution > > like it was before? > > You cannot replace files that are open. Especially in the case of DConf > which mmaps (memory maps) its files, replacing such files while 'live' > will certainly not work.
yes, but I made another attempt, after Milan's reply, following his suggestion. I stopped gdm from another console (and so evolution and dconf have stopped), then copied the folder of the previous list. This didnt' work. So I tried another method: copying the whole .local and .config trees, and this time it worked! So I suppose there should be at least another folder to copy. I also tried the last procedure into a virtual machine running the same environment, and the results are the same. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
