On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 18:20 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote: > On 6/18/05, ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > > > Does anyone know exactly where Evo keeps all of its data so that it > > > doesn't think that it is starting over from scratch, or at least > > > without accounts? Can I just copy over some files and have Evolution > > > come back up like nothing had changed? > > > > > > Jonathan > > > > Evolution stores them in your home directory as a hidden directory > > called .evolution . If you Cd to .evolution you will see directories for > > you mail, address book, cache, calendar and tasks. > > > > In the mail directory, you will see directories for you config, local. > > pop, vfoder and views. > > > > The directory local/Inbox.sbd will contain a listing of all your folders > > and local mail...The folders are actually ASCII files and you can view > > them with something like less, more, cat. etc.. > > > > Hope this helps > > > > Ed > > Hi Ed, > > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I know about .evolution/, but that doesn't > seem to be enough. I've been playing around with things trying to > figure this out. Okay, what I most specifically want to know is where > does Evolution store account information. You would think it would be > in .evolution too, but I can delete that folder and its contents and > Evolution will remember my accounts! The problem is, when moving the > old folder, it doesn't remember my accounts. > Here is my test. As my normal user: > > 1. Remove any .evolution folder if it exists (it's backed up) > 2. Start Evolution and add a (or another) account > 3. Close Evolution > 4. Remove newly created .evolution folder > 5. Open Evolution and go to Edit->Preferences > 6. Notice that all accounts are still there > 7. Wonder where it gets this stuff... > > I've tried doing an strace of Evolution to try to see what files it > accesses when starting and when adding an account. There was a lot of > output there and a quick filter didn't turn up anything outside of > .evolution (but in ~). Any ideas? I know I've also deleted some of > the Gnome . files (like .gconf* and .gnome*) and lost my accounts. So > it seems like it must be somewhere there, but it's hidden well it > seems. > > Jonathan > Jonathan, In FC3/Evolution 2.0.4 it looks like it's in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml. Bob...
