Where does Evolution store all of its data?
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Jun 18 23:34:11 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 18:20 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> 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
>
Jonathan,
In FC3/Evolution 2.0.4 it looks like it's in
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml.
Bob...
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