On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 05:33 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:10 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 18:27 -0500, David Malcolm wrote: > > > > > > > > You should also save the relevant GConf settings, below /apps/evolution > > That's ~/.gconf/apps/evolution What David wrote is correct, "/apps/evolution" is the GConf path to the evolution settings. "~/.gconf/apps/evolution" is file system path to where the settings are actually stored, but that doesn't matter because you shouldn't be accessing those files directly. > > > > > > gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some_file.xml > > > > > > (this is where your account data and preferences are stored) > > > > I was not aware of this - very cool info, thanks. > > Yup. Have just been using tar archive/restore of ~/.gconf > ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution and ~/.evolution No need to tar anything if you use gconftool-2 to dump and/or load your settings. Besides, if the next version of Gconf switches to a database backend, you won't be able to restore your settings by restoring the ~/.gconf directory. Regards, -- Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>