Restoring or Moving your Evolution files

Contributed by cachique June 30, 2005  
Tagged: UNIX software

When you move from one machine to another or when you install a new linux distro this could help to restore your entire Evolution profile and data

First of all you need a backup of your files.
There are 2 directories in your home that matters to Evolution
* ~/.evolution
* ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
Make sure to backup both.

Once in your new machine, or distro, or place, or user or wherever you want to restore your Evolution profile follow these steps.
1- Shutdown Evolution completely with ./evolution –force-shutdown
2- Erase and copy back the contents of those directories with your backup.
3- Exit X session and login again.
4- Start Evolution.

NOTE: You need to exit the X session for the gconfd to load new data but you can also try ./gconftool-2 –shutdown without exiting X session. Let me know if that works.