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[Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, somewhere along the line it's started working again, though I had to 
re-enter some, but not all, of my passwords (huh??)

Cheers,
Simon

 "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a 
man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz



----- Original Message ----
> From: Teruel de Campo MD <chusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: opensuse list <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:41:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Evolution backup/restore problem
>
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 20:39 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just upgraded my main system from OpenSuSE 10.3 to 11.0. I use
> > evolution for my calendar and mail, and as I've done in the past, I
> > made a backup of my home directory before doing the new install. Then I
> > copied back the contents of ~/.evolution, ~/.gconf/apps/evolution, and
> > ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution. I thought that was all I had done in the
> > past, and that had been sufficient to restore all my mail
> > configurations, folders, etc. But this time it doesn't seem to have
> > worked. When I start evolution, it seems to come up as a new install,
> > and starts taking me through the wizard to set it all up.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what I might have done wrong?
>
> Simon,
>
> Follow exactly these steps. 
>
> 1. Start evolution in the new system go through the first steps. Then
> close it
>
> 2. Force shoutdown
>
> $ evolution --force-shutdown
>
> $ gconftool-2 --shutdown
>
> 3. Copy the folders from old to new, you must have all files from the
> ~/.evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution directories.
>
> -=terry(Denver)=-




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