On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:50 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > hi joep, > > Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Joep Blom: > > I have a lot of problems, upgrading from FC4 to FC5. Therefore I like to > > do something drastic, i.e. reformatting the partitions it uses and > > installing FC5 from scratch. > > Evolution stores your data in $HOME/.evolution, your account settings in > $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution and your passwords in > $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution. SSL Certificates are stored in > $HOME/.camel_certs. > > First of all, shut Evolution and its background processes (Evolution > Data Server, Evolution Alarm Notify) completly down by using "evolution > --force-shutdown". > Then copy the contents of $HOME/.evolution/, > $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution, $HOME/.camel_certs. > Then dump your Evolution settings stored in GConf by running > "gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some-file.xml" where > "some-file.xml" is the name of the file the information is written to. > > On the new partition, make sure you are not running GConf (by "ps ax | > grep gconf" for example; you normally have to leave Gnome for that and > then run "gconftool-2 --shutdown" on the shell). > Then import those settings by running "gconftool-2 --load some-file.xml" > and log in to Gnome again, also copy the three folders > ($HOME/.evolution/, $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution, > $HOME/.camel_certs). > > After that, you can start Evolution on the new partition. Should work, > as there were no changes between 2.2/FC4 and 2.6/FC5. > > cheers, > andre
Does this work moving from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system? Are there any other gotcha's to worry about in this move? -- Graham Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
