Where does Evolution store all of its data?

[Jonathan Berry]

On 6/18/05, ed <ed at gurski.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > Does anyone know exactly where Evo keeps all of its data so that it
> > doesn't think that it is starting over from scratch, or at least
> > without accounts?  Can I just copy over some files and have Evolution
> > come back up like nothing had changed?
> >
> > Jonathan
> 
> Evolution stores them in your home directory as a hidden directory
> called .evolution . If you Cd to .evolution you will see directories for
> you mail, address book, cache, calendar and tasks.
> 
> In the mail directory, you will see directories for you config, local.
> pop, vfoder and views.
> 
> The directory local/Inbox.sbd will contain a listing of all your folders
> and local mail...The folders are actually ASCII files and you can view
> them with something like less, more, cat. etc..
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Ed

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I know about .evolution/, but that doesn't
seem to be enough.  I've been playing around with things trying to
figure this out.  Okay, what I most specifically want to know is where
does Evolution store account information.  You would think it would be
in .evolution too, but I can delete that folder and its contents and
Evolution will remember my accounts!  The problem is, when moving the
old folder, it doesn't remember my accounts.
Here is my test.  As my normal user:

1. Remove any .evolution folder if it exists (it's backed up)
2. Start Evolution and add a (or another) account
3. Close Evolution
4. Remove newly created .evolution folder
5. Open Evolution and go to Edit->Preferences
6. Notice that all accounts are still there
7. Wonder where it gets this stuff...

I've tried doing an strace of Evolution to try to see what files it
accesses when starting and when adding an account.  There was a lot of
output there and a quick filter didn't turn up anything outside of
.evolution (but in ~).  Any ideas?  I know I've also deleted some of
the Gnome . files (like .gconf* and .gnome*) and lost my accounts.  So
it seems like it must be somewhere there, but it's hidden well it
seems.

Jonathan