I understand that. I wasn't trying to restore settings, I was trying to restore the contents of the address book so that I could have my contacts back. Kinda like importing a .ics file, which is what I did to get that information into Evolution originally.
Either way, through some freak occurrence, Evolution seems to have shaped up. All is well. On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:07 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 22:08 -0700, Peter Ellis wrote: > > Hmm. Well, I tried to re-import the old ones, but that doesn't work, > > since Evolution's import doesn't recognize the .db format. In addition, > > since the Contacts list has absolutely no groups associated with it, > > there's no way to add a new group. Evolution crashes when trying to > > create a new group. > > Setting ARENT STORED IN THE DB FILE. > > They're stored in gconf. Gconf import is a gconf issue. > > > Seems to me like a bug :) Is there a way to restore Evolution's contact > > settings to the default settings? Perhaps moving .evolution to a > > different file name, then just restarting Evolution to recreate the > > directory structure and move the mail stuff over? > > > > - P > > > > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:57 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > > > > > You forgot to backup the .gconf directory as well, this is where these > > > settings are stored. > > > > > > There are some registry keys (/apps/evolution/mai;/signatures?) you > > > can play with regarding signatures, or just create the right amount > > > and copy over the other files onto the same names. > > > > > > I don't know about contacts, i've tried editing the gconf keys but had > > > no luck whatsoever for that or calendars. > > > > > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 21:41 -0700, Peter Ellis wrote: > > > > Hi, all: > > > > > > > > I've recently migrated over from SuSE Linux 9.1 and Evolution 1.5.92 to > > > > Fedora Core 2 and Evolution 1.5.9.1 (simply because that's the easiest > > > > version to install right now via Fedora). I took the liberty of backing > > > > up ~/.evolution before I made the switch, and then restored it to the > > > > same location when I reinstalled. > > > > > > > > While my mail, filters, and calendars survived intact, my signatures and > > > > contacts don't seem to have been read in properly. The Contacts section > > > > is completely empty, and the Signatures portion of the Options dialogs > > > > aren't reading the signature files that are there. I created a new > > > > signature, and it got saved as signature-5 in the appropriate directory. > > > > This seems to indicate to me that the directory is correct, it just > > > > refuses to read the other existing files. > > > > > > > > Any advice? > > > > > > > > - Peter > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > -- > > > > > > Michael Zucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "born to die, live to work, it's > > > all downhill from here" > > > Novell's Evolution and Free > > > Software Developer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > -- > > Michael Zucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "born to die, live to work, it's > all downhill from here" > Novell's Evolution and Free > Software Developer _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
