On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 07:59, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > 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?
the first one. the second one just holds your passwords. > > > > > > 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? rpm -qa | grep bonobo-conf I guess > > > > > 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. ok... > > > > > 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. *shrug* Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
