I am back, I was able to find out, that my dconf (.conf/dconf/user) file was the reason. I replaced it "logged out" with the file from the backup and everything is back. I still wonder how I managed to reset dconf, but anyway, this issue is fixed... Wolfram
Am Sonntag, den 06.08.2017, 23:42 +0200 schrieb Wolfram Wagner: > Hi, > I am using evolution for many years now and could solve a lot of > mostly self inflicted issues by myself. But this time I need your > help. > > Maybe a lot of the following is unrelated, but its my today's > history. > > I am running fedora 26 under cinnamon. Today evolution has worked as > usual before all that. I was trying to improve the time I need to > login to my account. So I renamed my home dir and created another > empty one. I logged in one time, it was quite fast. I logged off. > Then I moved the new initial home dir away and my old one back into > place. I logged in, it was slow again. I did not try to open > evolution. > > So I looked around and found this file: > .local/share/cinnamon/application_state > I found several old session states in it. So I removed them manually, > while being logged out. Evolution had this entry > <application id="evolution.desktop" open-window-count="1" > score="4707.4679660797119" last-seen="1382464923"/> > I did also some other hopefully unrelated things, like removing the > network manager icon. > > My evolution data is seemingly still there. I looks like my > environment has reset itself and forgot the existing data. When I > start evolution it starts the new user wizard. > > I have a working file backup in place. I just have no idea which > files I need to restore. > I have also found this page: https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/s > table/data-storage.html.de > But the data there seem to be alright. > > Please help! Thank you in advance! > Wolfram > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list