On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 01:37, Michael Gruner wrote: > Yesterday it did happen again: I exited evo. Imediatly after that I > wanted to exit my windowmaker session. My screen got black and nothing > more happend. There was no reaction on pressing any keys. > > Today in the morning I started my PC trying to fetch my mails but the > evo config was blown away :-( > > So I think the config gets lost if the PC stealths imediatly after evo > is shutted down?!
I'm taking a complete stab in the dark here, since I've never had this happen in Evolution. But I have had it happen in Mozilla, and maybe this applies here as well. We get frequent, short power outages here in Canadian farm-land, and I still haven't invested in a UPS. Sometimes a power failure will occur just as I have Mozilla open and am reading some email. When I reboot and try to restart Mozilla, I find that my profile seems to have vanished, along with all my settings. Mozilla asks me to create a new profile (and doesn't even auto-create a default one). After a bit of checking around, I realized that my profile was in fact still there and still intact. The .mozilla directory does contain all my settings and emails. But within the profile's directory, there's a file called "lock" which tells Mozilla that the profile is currently in use and should not be accessed by a new session. This prevents the same profile files from being changed from 2 or more different sources simultaneously (which would be disastrous on the email files). Mozilla usually deletes this "lock" file automatically when you exit the app, but when the computer is suddenly turned off by a power failure, that file isn't deleted. So Mozilla refuses to use that profile and load those settings. Manually removing that file fixes everything, and I'm able to load up my original profile again (no settings or emails are ever lost either). So, to summarize this unnecessarily long email, are you absolutely sure your evolution settings directory in the /home/[user]/evolution folder has been wiped out? Or are all the settings and emails still sitting there, unusable because of some generic lock file? Frank _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
