Thank you for the info. I found that simply running evolution --force-shutdown and restarting was enough to get my address book back.
Curiously, the only thing that didn't make the transition was the calendar and task-related info. I didn't have much there, so it's not a big deal. I have a couple of lingering concerns. I also noticed that ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/shell/default_folders/%gconf.xml includes entries like <entry name="mail_path" mtime="1060730873" muser="ross" type="string"><stringvalue>evolution:/local/Inbox</stringvalue></entry><entry name="mail_uri" mtime="1060730873" muser="ross" type="string"><stringvalue>file:///export/home/ross/evolution/local/Inbox</stringvalue></entry> The "file:///export/home..." looks a little suspicious, since my old machine, but not my new one, had a directory /export/home. Is the reference to /export to an actual path, or is it an internal magic word for evolution? Also, while poking around in .gconfd/saved_state I found a bunch of entries like ADD 3858759682 "def" "/apps/evolution/general/category_master_list" "IOR:010000001700000049444c3a436f6e6669674c697374656e65723a312e300000030000000054424f500000000101020005000000554e4958000000000500000069726f6e00000000290000002f746d702f6f726269742d726f73732f6c696e632d6638362d302d336265383131656338313461660000000000000000caaedfba5400000001010200290000002f746d702f6f726269742d726f73732f6c696e632d6638362d302d33626538313165633831346166000000001c00000000000000817888682e272828c02b28282828282804000000e106c24a01000000480000000100000002000000050000001c00000000000000817888682e272828c02b28282828282804000000e106c24a01000000140000000100000001000105000000000901010000000000" They look as if they are saving state too, but how to manipulate or read them is not clear. Should I be concerned about them? Also, I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I was going from 64 bit SPARC to 32 bit Athlon, so it seemed likely that if binary compatibility was an issue I would run into it (but maybe evo runs in 32 bit mode on Solaris, and I don't know if there are endian differences). On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:49, guenther wrote: > > 1) Mail hosts: > > The configuration included an IMAP server, which was remote for the > > SunOS system but was running on the Linux system. I would have > > thought it would just work, since the system name was valid from > > either (I was reprompted for the password, but I gather that's > > expected). I suspected their might be some security issues with the > > IMAP server, and changed the name to localhost. This worked better. > > > > After clearing away the evolution directory and restarting, the IMAP > > folders were still there. So apparently it's not kept under > > evolution/ (or at least isn't there under 1.4). Where is that > > information? > > Since Evolution 1.3.x most of the configuration is stored using GConf > instead of the old ~/evolution/config.xmldb file. See the directory > ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ for your settings, or use gconf-editor. > > AFAIK you simply can delete this directory, to start from scratch. Force > Evolution to completely shutdown by running > $ evolution --force-shutdown > > > > 2) Contacts: > > Some members of this list indicated that the address book was binary, > > and so might not travel. To my surprise, my contacts were preserved > > after the first startup. (Or does the "address book" refer to > > something other than the contacts folder?). > > Yes, ~/evolution/local/Contacts/ is the default Address Book directory. > > > > After I moved the evolution directory, the contacts were empty except > > for Ximian. That was not surprising. > > > > However, when I tried moving back my original evolution directory, the > > contacts remained empty. Where did they go? > > Again, close Evolution and run 'evolution --force-shutdown' before > copying / overriding the contacts. > > ...guenther -- _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
