Weekend's are usually fairly quiet. I guess either: nobody's using evolution; people are using it but are having no real problems; people are using it but are having problems but aren't saying anything, etc. The list is quieter than it has been; I assume it generally "just works" for most people.Thanks for the input Not Zed. I appreciate it. This list seems pretty dead. Am I on the wrong list or something? I've only gotten a couple of emails on any subject in the last few days.
I can only see one message (the parent of this one) that you have posted to this list (I have almost every message since may 2001 in my mailbox), at least from your current email address.Thanks for the heads up on something I can do. I am still unable to find a reference somewhere regarding where Evolution stores it's files and what it does with them. It's almost as if that kind of information is being kept secret or something. I have scoured the Internet and have spent hours looking and looking and runnning Evolution under strace control or using "find / -amin 1" type constructs to see if I might not be able to discern what Evolution is doing and where. I have also left messages on this list and several forums. All to no avail.
Well, settings are stored in the "registry" (aka gconf), with other bulkier things stored in ~/.evolution/ (for 2.0.x).If nothing else I guess I will have to resort to looking at the source code itself and tracing where it does what manually but what a pain that's going to be.
Using strace wont always help since the physical files might be being accessed from other seemingly unrelated processes, such as gconfd-2 or evolution-data-server-1.0, etc.
There's really not much else to it, your best bet is the source, or ask specific questions on this list. There are many references in the archives to "migration" of data and backing up data, its basically the #1 Frequently-asked & answered-Question.
!Z
