Thanks Vinu - that tends to confirm what I'd thought. Helps when you get it confirmed!
I'm assuming that provided I've backed up all of my home directory - including all the hidden files - I will have got everything working again when I've reinstalled Ubuntu, including all my e-mails. I can get to them now - in a fairly user-unfriendly sort of way - by tapping into the .evolution folder. Thanks again, your help is much appreciated. One general thought regarding this list - much of the chat is, by its very nature, very technical, or at least very much couched in 'insider' language. As a real beginner in the Ubuntu world I for one would appreciate a bit of 'translation' when discussing convoluted issues. I'm not an IT novice, but neither am I an IT expert. For those who've already given their advice, many thanks. Hope this pointer helps to widen involvement; I will be running community IT classes again this coming autumn and have already raised interest in Ubuntu taster sessions. Greg -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
