On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:10 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > Hello, > it is stored in gconf, in /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources, there are > paths like "file:///home/login/.evolution/..." so fix the login and it > should starts to work. You can fix this > in /apps/evolution/calendar/sources as well, as under memos and tasks. > > You can use either gconf-editor to edit those keys, or you can find it > in ~/.gconf/apps/... in XML files, but you need to stop all evolution > processes before playing with it and also stop gconf caching daemon so > your changes will not be overwritten back from the cache. So I think the > gconf-editor is much easier from this point of view (even it's harder to > edit the keys itself there). > Bye, > Milan > Thanks a lot, problem solved. I used the gconf-editor to change the file:///... entry in .gconf/apps/evolution/addressbook/%gconf.xml to the new home path and username.
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:42 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >> Resending, maybe the first message in December was unnoticed. I need >> help, please! >> >> Dear Evolution-list, >> >> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5) >> on an Athlon 64 computer, with Evolution 2.02 installed. After a >> change of my login user name, all the Contacts data was lost. >> (Fortunately not the mails). I'm trying to find out what happened, >> but have no solution yet. >> >> The address book is still found >> at .evolution/addressbook/local/system/ >> with the files addressbook.db and addressbook.db.summary. However >> they are not found when running evolution. Trying to create new >> address books also fails, just the names are there, nothing can be >> added to them. They can't even be removed. It seems that my previous >> login username is hard-coded somewhere making the Contacts parts to >> fail. Maybe it is due to some .gconf* settings or in .gnome* Please >> help me with this issue. >> >> Best regards, >> Svante Signell >> _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
