On Saturday 18 January 2003 01:25 am, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:52, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:26, Christine McLellan wrote: > > > Martin - > > > > > > What do you mean by losing folder defaults? Do you mean which > > > folders are set as default mailbox, calendar, contacts, etc? Or > > > something about each Exchange folder that you are viewing with > > > Evo such as the email columns, sort order, threading? And are > > > these actual folders or vFolders? Have you submitted a bug on > > > this at > > > http://bugzilla.ximian.com? > > > > Christine, > > > > I am not Martin, but I am experiencing the latter, mostly with my > > "Threaded view" setting. And no, I have not submitted a bug > > this is mostly an FYI that may shine some light on some things. > > the "Threaded view" setting is not global, it is per-folder. > > opening a folder you've never opened before will use the global > setting (which is in the config.xmldb). I think it defaults to off. > There's actually no way to set this via the UI that I can recall, but > there used to be.
Jeffrey, I have two copies of this, ~/evolution/config.xmldb & ~/evolution/private/config.xmldb Which one should I be editing to change the global defaults? > > also, make sure you are running bonobo-conf 0.16, as that is the only > version of bonobo-conf that will reliably save config settings when > the system has write errors. What is the best way to test my version? > > as another aside, if you are out of disk space - settings may not > necessarily be saved, depending on whether or not bonobo-conf-0.16 is > able to save a tenporary copy (in the ~/evolution/ directory, not > /tmp). Disk space not an issue. > > not sure any of these FYI's light up any lightbulbs as to why you may > be having problems. > > now... assuming that doesn't solve it for ya, then the only other > explanation is that evolution-mail is not shutting down cleanly and > is thus not ever getting to the point where it flushes the settings > to disk. if you control-c or killev, this is likely the problem. That happens sometimes as there are times when the "Evolution is closing..." box does not go away (for hours). Other times, I may exit the window manager without exiting Evolution first. BUT, this seems to happen even with a proper shutdown. > > Jeff Thanks, Art -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexion.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
