I find it hard to believe that it wiped it out - without asking. We only ever delete evolution if it is an upgrade to 2.0+ AND the you've answered 'delete old data', AFTER it successfully upgraded it.
Unless the data is there and you just can't see it. On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:44 -0400, Alan S Barnett wrote: > I got evolution to work again. Unfortunatly, I lost all my data. I > guess I'm not paranoid enough. I moved ~/.gconf/apps/evolution to > ~/.gconf/apps/evolution- and I didn't back up the ~/evolution folder. > When I started evolution, it started up, but not only did it create a > new ~/.gconf/apps/evolution folder, but it also wiped out both my > ~/evolution folder and the backup ~/.gconf/app/evolution- settings > folder. > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:43, guenther wrote: > > > I recently edited my account information. When I tried to save the > > > changes, evolution crashed. Since then, whenever I try to start > > > evolution, it fails and gives a "Segmentation fault" error message. I > > > can run evolution on my machine as root. > > > I figure that some configuration setting is causing the crash. I tried > > > renaming my "evolution" folder (which contains settings), but it still > > > crashes. > > > > No, settings are stored using GConf since 1.4.0. So the settings are in > > ~/.gconf/apps/evolution, whereas your data is in ~/evolution. > > > > If you want to try removing the settings, move the mentioned evolution > > dir in GConf. However, before messing around with any file in the GConf > > dir, be sure to close the GConf daemon, as it holds this data in memory. > > 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' is the command these days, not sure about your > > version. See 'gconftool-2 --help' for available options. > > > > Backing up your data and settings *before* might be a good idea. > > Paranoia saves your day! > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Not sure... But you seem to be right about these crashes being related > > to your settings, IMHO. > > > > HTH > > > > ...guenther > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
