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Re: [LUG] hopefully not fubar

 

Perhaps a brute force approach would be to create two new user accounts,
configure evolution identically in each, then delete and restore .gconf
in one of them and look at the file dates (and then diff?) the files
in .evolution?

Phil

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 20:41 +0000, James Kilty wrote: 
> Hello
> 
> Can anyone say which file/folder I should restore when I have lost all 
> my accounts and evolution wants to start from scratch. I can restore 
> from an old backup (if the fikle exists as thinbgs changed in my upgrade 
> from 8.04 to 10.04. This happened when I deleted .gconf, rebooted to 
> create a new one, then deleted and restored it (via intermediate 
> .gconf_bak): on reboot this problem occurred. I presume that a file in 
> .evolution changed - possibly emptied. I cannot find one that seems 
> right, though I cannot open them all to examine them. All the accounts 
> are present and mailboxes etc.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
> 
> -- 
> James Kilty
> http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk
> http://unitycontrol.co.uk
> 



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