The staggering
complexity and fragility of gconf has forced to routinely wipe users directories
in order to restore a working desktop-thankfully none of them have used
evolution up till now and frankly I am remiss to encourage them to do so until
the backup and retrieval of evolution data store is more predicatable/reliable...
This bug describes the issue of importing a backup of the ~/.evolution directory into Evolution. There are approximately 24 others of similar vein on the bugzilla list. Other comments of interest included this choice number:
The above indicated, to me, that perhaps there is another location for Evolution's *stuff*? As braindamaged as it sounds, perhaps the developers decided to use some other location for your data (thereby leading to permissions issues)?
Is there any *good* reason to store anything critical to evolutions
configuration settings and stored emails/address/contacts/calender
to-do's/appointments anywhere other than in the .evolution directory itself ?
I certainly don't have a migration path for you, as mutt/Maildir suits my tastes quite well, but I would hope that an alternative for you is available. What I *can* offer though is a link: here.
On 2/28/06, Dennis Bagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've posted (twice) to the [email protected] and got -0- response. May have something to do with them preparing to release Evo 2.6
and a new Gnome. I have been very happy with the features etc of Evolution in the past, but being unable to modify the contact list is driving me
to distraction.
Right now, if there were a simple way to move my archived email and contacts to another email client I think I would do it. But when I looked
at Thunderbird, for example, there did not seem to be any easy migration path.
Does anyone know of a good email client that would easily allow me to import all my stuff from Evo?
Dennis
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 07:46 -0800, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
All three of those errors just sounds like crappy coding, to me. Who knows what other garbage is in their source...
To be fair, though, Anna is right, and an in-depth ldd on that binary might give some idea of what's wrong. I suppose, since this is Linux, that there isn't an UPDATING file in the package anywhere, is there? If not, I would just submit a PR with as much information as you can give. Developer mailing-lists are usually better places to get application-specific issues resolved.
On 2/28/06, Dennis Bagley < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'll give that a try though it seems unlikely I have the wrong libraries. Ubuntu uses apt-get
and I even tried a full re-installation of Evolution.
That being said - it doesn't explain the Gdk error. So why not!
D.
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:43 -0800, Anna wrote:On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:49:54PM -0800, Dennis Bagley wrote: > Hey folks, I've written about this problem before and no one yet has given me a > useful answer > (As in one that fixes the problem) > > So here it is again in a different approach: > > Running Evolution 2.4.1 on Ubuntu Breezy > > Recently lost ability to add or edit contacts, have not found any solution so > far. one thing to try is eliminating the possibility that your user's config/data files have been corrupted. idea: Make a new test user, run X as that test user, and try to use Evolution. does it work or do you get the same problems? If you get the same problems then I'd start looking to make sure the libraries you have installed are compatible with the version Evolution. - Anna _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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