Evolution uses different folders for different types of content, following the XDG Base Specification, which is actually a good thing.
> From this info: > https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en > I understand want to copy this folder: > > ~/.local/share/evolution Here is the "general" data -including emails-. > ~/.config/evolution Whereas the files here are configuration settings that could be recreated by the user if needed. > ~/.cache/evolution And this is data which can be safely discardewd. > ~/.config/dconf (*) > But into ~/.config/dconf are stored all DCONF setting of all other > application, an in this case I want to copy only Evo settings, not > the rest. That's true, although it's a problem of dconf, not something specific to evolution. You can export only evolution-related data with: dconf dump /org/gnome/evolution/ dconf dump /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/ Zan wrote: > One single .application directory like Firefox uses in .mozilla and > Thunderbird in .thunderbird is far more manageable and useful. Actually, Firefox no longer does this. It now uses: ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profilename>/ ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/<profilename>/ Which is a perfect example of why the XDG spec split the folders in this way, instead of saying "put everything about the program into ~/.apps/<programname>". It makes no sense to include in a firefox backup hundreds of MB that are just downloaded web pages and won't be of any use if restored later. Excluding ~/.cache you can easily exclude from a backup the unneeded data from all (conformant) programs. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
