evolution, address book and calendar missing

[Sebastian Spiess]

Dave Hall wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 15:04 +1000, andremangan at gmail.com wrote:
>> Sebastian, it looks like you used the first copy of the HowTo I sent
>> to you.
>>
>> That copy was flawed because Open Office had enabled by default a
>> "feature" that shifted any text to the left if followed by a space or
>> a tab therefore making double hyphens appear as a long single hyphen.
>>
>> Hence, a second amended copy of the HowTo was sent out on the
>> following day to all those, including you, who had initially requested
>> one, including a brief explanation.  In the second copy the hyphens
>> are easily recognised.
> 
> This is why putting information in publicly available wikis is a good
> thing, the reader gets the updates straight away.  You could even run
> your own wiki and put adsense ads on it if you wanted get something back
> for your efforts.
> 
> Emailing PDFs for documentation is so dated :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 


Hi Dave,

it took me a while until I found time but it worked! thank you

here is what I did (to put it out into the public) :-)

$ gconftool-2 --shutdown
$ evolution --force-shutdown
Shutting down evolution-exchange-storage (Evolution Calendar Exchange backend / Evolution Addressbook Exchange backend)
Shutting down evolution-data-server-2.22 (Evolution Calendar file and webcal backend / Evolution Addressbook file backend)
Shutting down evolution-alarm-notify (Evolution Calendar alarm notification service)

Now I copied the following directories back to ~ from my backup

~/.evolution/
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
~/.gnome2_private/Evolution

$ gconftool-2 --unload evolution_se
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "evolution_se"
Failed to open `evolution_se': No such file or directory
$ gconftool-2 --unload evolution
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "evolution"
Failed to open `evolution': No such file or directory


Although the two error messages don't tell me anything and look as if it did not work, it did.

I started Evolution and everything was there again! no import dialogue or anything...


Thanks again