Re: [Evolution] Evo: backing up & restoring to new machine

[John Schmidt <jschmidt amis com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:08, Not Zed wrote:
>     For local email, the important locations are ~/evolution or ~/.evolution >= version 1.5.
>     If you do them, you will get all your local email back, regardless of any other settings.
>     Add
>     ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
>     if you also want your settings (version 1.4 or later, otherwise just ~/evolution).
>     But you must shutdown gconf before restoring the files otherwise it may not pick them up properly.
>     (gconftool-2 --shutdown).  Also you should shut it, and evolution, down before taking the backup, for consistency.
>     That's it really - only those two directories are used unless you've setup specific external file sources (maildir, mh trees, etc).
>     
Don't want to beat this topic into the ground, but...I went back and tried this method suggested by Not Zed.  I killed gconf on both machines, killed evolution on both machines and rsync'd the evolution and .gconf trees over again.  It did not restore my environment back to what I expected.  

I still ended up having to re-define my filters (filters didn't know where to move messages to) and also had to add columns to each folder's view configuration.  And auto-complete on addresses doesn't work any longer either.  

FWIW, I'm running SuSE 9.1 with evolution 1.4.6 on my new computer and I was running evolution 1.4.6 on the old.

John