How do I reset Evolution?

[Michiel Sikkes]

Op wo, 23-02-2005 te 10:21 +0000, schreef Eamonn Sullivan:
>I've had a stormy relationship with Evolution since installing Warty
>some months ago. Now that I'm trying Hoary, I'd like to give the
>miscreant another try. I use gmail, so all I really need from
>Evolution is a place to put my schedule and contacts from my Palm. My
>problem is that after multiple wrestling sessions, my evolution
>settings are extremely screwed up. I tried deleting ~/.evolution, but
>the data is still there when I open the application again. And then
>when I try to sync, Evolution throws fits (in the form of about 20
>error dialogs) about missing directories and such. How do I start
>again -- no palm settings, no data, etc. -- and end up back at the
>beginning, where I have to tell Evolution what email account to use?
>Thanks much.

Hi,

I think gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/evolution should do the
trick.

Cheers,
 Michiel
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