Make sure gconfd and evolution* aren't running when you do any file copying. run gconftool-2 --shutdown to shut down gconf and exit evolution.
I presume you're using some version which only uses gconf to store the settings, so that should suffice.
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 00:11 +0000, Carlos Gonzalez wrote:
Hi everyone, A couple of days ago my KMail corrupted hundreds of my files and started acting really weird with missing toolbar buttons and the like. KDE in general has been quirky as of late when trying to upgrade. Short of all this is that I switched to Evolution and then to GNOME. Evolution has improved by leaps and bounds since I last tried it a year or more ago. No more crashes and the like. VERY NICE!! I am now trying to copy over the relevant files from my old home partition to a new home partition on an entirely different disk. I have gotten all my email copied over no problem but am having a big problem trying to copy over the files that may contain my mail account settings. I have tried copying ~/carlos/.evolution and ~/gconf/apps/evolution completely and evolution (running under a different Linux and accessing things on a different partition on a different hard disk) absolutely refused to load my old mail account settings. Where are these settings kept? Such that I could copy over the files that have to do with them? Any input on this would be most appreciated. I have spent hours looking, and tinkering with evolution, and searching Google and DogPile and to date have found nothing laying out very clearly and very thoroughly where evolution keeps it's data and which files do what and where. Is there no web page anywhere that would list all this? Carlos ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
