On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 18:42 +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
On Thursday 07 July 2005 17:42, Peter Hunter wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:06 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
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Peter Hunter peterslinuxbox@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:10 +0100, Peter Onion wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:43 +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
I am about to re-install Suse 9.3 Prof. (it didn't fully install last time as a couple of the disks I made from the Internet download were corrupt or just faulty). I have managed to save my files (docs) etc., but how do I make a backup of my email messages and settings? I am running Evolution inGnome 2.10 if that helps.
Evolution keeps stuff under .evolution in your home directory. Backing that up is necessary but may not be sufficient.
BUT ISTR that's all I did when I upgraded last time.
Peter O
Thanks for that peter.However, in gnome 2.10 on the Suse machine there is no such folder in my home directory (nor is there on on the Ubuntu either). This only place I can find anything to do with evolution is in the /opt/gnome/lib and /opt/gnome/share/gnome/. But there is so much stuff in those two locations I have no idea what to save.
Try ~/.Evolution (depends on the version of Evolution) and also, make sure that you back up ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution, which is where it stores passwords etc.
/opt/gnome will be the system libraries. There shouldn't be user data in there.
If you can't find it still, try doing: find ~ -name et-expanded*
which should give you a hint as to where to look.
Of course, if you don't trash your /home partition, you shouldn't (in theory) have any problems... but this does rather assume that you have a seperate /home partition.
Hope that helps,
Brett Parker
This is strange. None of those seem to give any clues or results. I'm wondering if, because this is a *broken* installation, stuff has been missed off. I know it said - whilst installing from CDs - *can't find ???* I just clicked on *ignor* and continued on. That's why I want to do a complete new installation. I have bit the bullet and purchased Suse 9.3 prof. It'll be here tomorrow.
Funny thing, if I click Applications - Office - Address Book, the Evolution address book is there. If I click on that it opens up my address book! So it has to be there somewhere!!
Peter
Hi System Suse 9.3 Pro, on KDE and Gnome when opening home folder View/Show Hidden files, I have .evolution with mail folders There was an lot of bugs in the when I first got it (Apr.) so maybe updates have cured it? I Regards-Nick Daniels
FANTASTIC ! ! ! Well done Nick, you have won first prize. View Hidden Files revealed everything in the home folder, including .evolution
Thanks everyone for helping me to solve this. If nothing else i have learnt loads along the way.
Peter
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