Some of the settings are in GConf at this point and stored in
~/.gconf/apps/evolution.  Settings for older Evolution versions (< 1.3)
may still be in ~/evolution, if you were running an older version of
Evolution with this home directory.

-Mark Gordon

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 12:08, Christopher Ness wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> To take a "snapshot" of evolution just tar and compress the ~/evolution
> directory (that's in your home dir).  When you install Suse simply
> extract the file to your new home dir.
> 
> Be sure that evolution has shut down before compressing a snapshot. 
> This command should do it.
> $> evolution --force-shutdown
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> I have a secondary question though:
> 
> Is it possible to save the messages, but not the settings?  I would like
> to save all my messages so I can go back to them (archive) but I don't
> want them to clog up my working Evo.  So every month or so I'll export
> all the messages to another machine.
> 
> An important consideration is being able to search through these
> archives and being able to add onto them monthly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:57, Anca Tibor- Attila wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am really new to evolution, so I have to ask such a basic thing,
> > sorry. I would like to know the best (secure) way to save all mails and
> > personal setting, including addresses. I have Evolution 1.4.5 (download
> > from Ximian) and I am going to change from RedHat 9 to SuSE 8.2. Does
> > somebody have some experience with saving issues?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tibor

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