On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:08 +1030, Tim wrote: > Joseph Loo: > >> Did you shutdown evolution before you did the copy on both machines? > >> evolution --force-shutdown > > > Gilboa Davara: > > Nope... nothing. > > Just rebooted my F7; installed a fresh copy of F8; start evolution. > > You need to (shut it down), at least I always have with any prior > releases. When you log in, parts of it (*) are started up, even if you > don't start up evolution, yourself. You need to shut it completely > down, with that command line, before you put your files in place. > > (* The calendar that works with the taskbar clock, for instance.) > I didn't copy the home directory. It's on a different partition; I just remounted it on the new machine and presto - Evolution started without a problem. As for moving Evo from one machine to the other - I've got an automated script the calls shutdown; targz parts of the .evolution directory (a number of folders; calendar; contacts; filters) and moves them to the new machine. - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
