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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 web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk