Recovery of Evolution mails and settings

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 09:20 +0200, antonio.montagnani at alice.it wrote:
> I made a full copy of a F16 users directory.
> 
> I made a fresh installation of 
> F17...now I want to transfer settings and mail to the new computer.
> 
> I copied .
> config/evolution and .local/share/evolution.
> 
> It still starts asking for setup 
> of a new account.
> 
> Where is my mistake???

Your mistake is in not using Evo's built-in backup and restore
functions. See
http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en and
follow the link to Backup and Restore.

BTW this is a FAQ on the Evo list
(http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list). Questions about
Evo are usually better directed there than here, though of course it
isn't Fedora-specific. And of course questions about F17 should go to
the Test list since it isn't released yet.

poc