re-install

[Colin Law]

On 20 March 2013 14:29, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20 March 2013 13:56, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Would the user number be in a file, such as .evolution/something
>> or .mozilla/something? It would be interesting to find out.
>
> In a terminal the command
> id
> or
> id username
> will show the uid and other information for the current or specified user.
>
> They are stored in /etc/passwd so
> cat /etc/passwd
> will show it.

Perhaps I misunderstood the question, if you wonder how evolution gets
its information it will look in the configuration files (which are no
longer in .evolution but are in .local/share/evolution) in the logged
on users home directory.  The command
echo ~
will show you which directory that is.

Colin

>
> Colin